Didier Demazière

Didier Demazière is a French sociologist specialized in the study of unemployment ; in 2012, he is Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research., assigned at the Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO, in English Centre for the Sociology of Organizations), in partnership with Sciences Po.

Research Topics

For a sociology of unemployment?

Industrial Sociologist, he became interested in the field through the analysis of unemployment, in particular, questioning the emergence of a professional identity of the unemployed. As such, he is also interested in other emerging fields reclaiming identities "pseudo-professional"; for example, he worked around the status of free software developer in a free software community and questioned why such a commitment hesitating between volunteering, activism and professionalism.

Bibliography

• L'injonction au professionnalisme. Analyse d'une dynamique plurielle (The injunction professionalism. Dynamic analysis of a plural), with Valérie Boussard and Philip Milburn, (2010).
• Sociologie des groupes professionnels. Acquis récents, nouveaux défis (Sociology of professional groups. Recent achievements, new challenges), with Charles Gadéa, (2009).
• Sociologie des chômeurs (Sociology of unemployed), (2006), (ISBN 978-2707148926)
• Analyses textuelles en sociologie. Logiciels, méthodes, usages (Textual analysis in sociology. Software, methods, uses), (2006).
• Analyser les entretiens biographiques (Analyze the biographical interviews), with Claude Dubar, 2004. (ISBN 2763781349)
• Le chômage. Comment peut-on être chômeur ? (Unemployment. How can you be unemployed?), (2003).
• Chômeurs: du silence à la révolte. Sociologie d'une action collective (Unemployed: from silence to revolt. Sociology of collective action), with Maria Teresa Pignoni, (1999).
• Le chômage de longue durée (The long-term unemployment), (1995).
• La sociologie du chômage (The sociology of unemployment), (1995).
• Longue durée. Vivre en chômage (Long-term. Living in unemployment), with Marc Helleboid and Jacques Mondoloni, (1994).
• Le chômage en crise? La négociation des identités des chômeurs de longue durée (Unemployment crisis? Negotiation of identities of long-term unemployed), (1992)