Section
Society
Social change, demographics, education, labour, migration and cohesion.
19 published articles
Overview
The Society section follows demographic and social change, education, labour, migration, inequality and social cohesion. It examines how these dynamics transform institutions, territories and living conditions.
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Civilizational Power: What Makes Societies Endure and Shape the World
In Seoul, a television series can inspire people thousands of miles away to learn Korean. In Fez, a medina preserves, through its streets, crafts and institutions of learning, a history that changes of regime have not erased. At an American university, students from several continents learn a way of producing knowledge as much as they earn a degree. In Mecca, the pilgrimage places individual journeys within a shared spiritual geography.
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SocietyAI: Growth Without Entry-Level Jobs?
Artificial intelligence is already helping sustain the global economy through the scale of investment it generates. Yet behind the promises of productivity and economic growth, a less visible transformation is emerging: the gradual automation of the tasks through which young graduates have traditionally entered professional life.
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SocietyImmigration: When the Border Becomes an Ideology
Sometimes a single word is enough to reveal that a debate has changed in nature. On October 6, Elon Musk was not talking about migration quotas, visas, asylum law, external borders or labour shortages. Responding on X to a post by Tommy Robinson concerning France, he used a different vocabulary: that of an “invasion”. Those who supported it were then described in his message as “traitors”.
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SocietyFrance: A Generation Takes to the Streets
Outside the gates of French high schools, the protest began with ordinary things. A missing teacher. An overcrowded classroom. A school nurse who is difficult to find. An ageing building. Lost teaching hours. Then came concerns about Parcoursup, access to higher education and, behind them, a much larger question: what place is actually waiting for this generation in the France to come?
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SocietyAdulthood Is Fading
There was a time when being thirty already told a story.
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SocietyHealth: The Body Becomes Technological
For thousands of years, medicine worked with what the body was willing to reveal.
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SocietyBoycott: The Economics of Refusal
Sometimes, all it takes is buying nothing.
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SocietyThe Family Under Pressure
Couples, parenthood, friendship, solitude and transmission: contemporary societies are not merely changing the way people live. They are progressively redistributing functions that the family performed for centuries. Behind individual emancipation therefore lies a major collectiv
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SocietySocial Protection: The Invisible Contract
Illness, an accident, job loss, the birth of a child, an inability to work, or simply old age. Behind each of these events lies the same question: what happens to an individual when income disappears while basic needs remain? For centuries, societies answered this question throug
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SocietyAI and the End of the Privilege to Create
For a long time, creation was a rare activity, not because ideas were scarce, but because turning them into works required resources that were difficult to assemble. Writing a book took months or years. Composing and recording music required instruments, technical mastery and oft
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SocietyMeta and Social Media Addiction: A Trial Without Appeal?
For a long time, the case against social media was argued far from the courtroom. It belonged to parents, psychologists, teachers, researchers and, sometimes, users themselves. Platforms were accused of fragmenting attention, invading the night, turning social comparison into a p
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SocietyNaval Ravikant: Wealth, Freedom and Power in the Age of Digital Leverage
Naval Ravikant has never built an industrial empire, controlled a global social network or become the public face of a technological conglomerate. His influence is more difficult to measure than market capitalization or political authority. It lies in the circulation of ideas. En
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SocietyPeter Thiel: Power, Technology and the Revolt of Silicon Valley’s Elites
Peter Thiel is difficult to fit into a single category. Entrepreneur, investor, billionaire, libertarian intellectual, political donor, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, Facebook’s first major outside investor and a central figure at Founders Fund, he simultaneously belongs to t