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Psychologische Gründe reichen nicht aus, um die Rückkehr Bokassas zu erklären. Um die wahren Gründe zu erfahren, muß sowohl die innere Situation Zentralafrikas erklärt werden als auch das Bild, das sich die Zentralafrikaner von Bokassa machen. Innenpolitisch hat sich seit der Flucht Bokassas nicht viel geändert; die Korruption ist nach wie vor ein großes Problem, Polizei und Gendarmeriekräfte sind präsent. Ein großer Teil der Bevölkerung ist überzeugt, daß diese Rückkehr unvermeidlich war. (DÜI-Ott)

Crossing a survey of literature in sociology of health and her own inquiries in the field of mental health, the author studies the historical change in policies of secrecy in health domains and specifically, in modern democracies, practical aporias opposing rights and duties to and towards secrecy, rights and duty to and towards transparency. The paper describes weakening of medical secret regarding legitimization of standards of transparency, coordination and evaluation supported by the New Public Management (NPM). Two forms of resistance against technocratic enforcement to publicizing are suggested. The first of these forms is the historical exception, nowadays vilified as out of date, of psychoanalysis bound to strict secret of the singular interview and building there a space for emancipation, preventing any governance of behavior by healthiness. The second one: some intentional and paradoxical break of secret can result in symbolic reversal against domination and shame.

This article deals with cognitive biases that could affect the judgment of net surfers while reading a list of answers, after a query in a search engine. The hypothesis is made that order effects i.e primacy and/or recency could be observed in such contexts. The authors choose to test it by doing an experiment in controlled-environment. So they decide to focus more particularly on the field of smoking cessation techniques and refine their questioning as follows: After a query into a search engine, does the place of a medication in a list determines the idea of its relevance, for a student population? By comparing three different groups, the authors demonstrate a primacy effect and no recency effect. In addition, they highlight five moderating variables: sex of the individual, the fact that he is a smoker or not, the fact that he had, or not, originally any opinion about methods of smoking cessation, the fact whether or not he is affected by health problems related to smoking, speed reading on the Web interface. The authors conclude speaking in favour of information literacy education. For them, in the case presented, it would be relevant as a medical point of view, in terms of public health, as a point of socio-economic development.

We want to show here how recent innovations called Motion Capture, still being tested in laboratory on their potential uses, invite us to change our way to relate to the "technique". We don't want to question what the technique does to the social, nor what the social structures does to the technique, but we want to highlight the shifting principles that define interactions between technologies and humans. We therefore underline how using these motion sensors gives birth to different human modes of being present, co-present, or in a sensory and thymic interaction with technology. This article is based on experimental use tests, convoking both artists and engineers, questioning differently the relationship between technology, human and the interaction order. Our result is to question how using and being with these motion sensors, as a dancer, displace epistemological oppositions such as person/machine. It finally sheds light on how some others classical models can move, especially the semiotic decomposition of interaction processes and status.

Im Bürgerkrieg von Mosambik wurden Kinder in Flüchtlingslager verschleppt, andere flüchteten, wieder andere wurden Kindersoldaten. Nach Beendigung des Konflikts waren diese Kinder traumatisiert. Wie kann ihnen bei der Verarbeitung der schrecklichen Erlebnisse geholfen werden? Wie können sie "normale" Erwachsene werden? Auf der Basis einer in den Provinzen Gaza und Tete von Januar bis April 1994 erstellten Studie erläutert der Autor traditionelle therapeutische Behandlungsmethoden der Gemeinschaften für ihre Kinder und zeigt die psychosozialen Folgen für die ehemaligen Kindersoldaten auf. (DÜI-Ott)

Thanks to the collaboration of the group EGAE, we conducted a survey on the members of an online directory intended to promote the visibility of expert women in the public area. The analysis of the 190 participations allows us to answer several questions, among which: Who are the people who agree to become an expert and what motivations do they have? How do they perceive the role of an expert and what skills do they associate with him? What are the forms of social link created among members of this online community? By doing this, we examine how a sample constituted of women only has mobilized around a project, in order to reduce the inequality among men and women in media.

Today, the economic and financial crisis is brought to light and it is now clear that many people are directly impacted by this phenomenon. However, a lot of situations are obviously hidden and in particular those concerning over-indebted people. These people often find that it is difficult to express the hardship they are going through and keep silent because is more comfortable for them. The media also does not tackle this burning issue because the complexity of some situations complicates the message. Therefore, a giant gap has appeared leaving over-indebted people entrapped in their secret. Starting from this hypothesis, this article will examine the results of a research conducted on the over-indebted people (survey on written press, analysis of TV broadcasts, analysis of records related to person in debts and responses of people in debts) and the secrets that this phenomenon involves.

In one of his latter works, Stüdien über die Deutschen (Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am
Main, 1989), Norbert Elias, the famous sociologist of Jewish-German origin
(b. Breslau 1897, d. Amsterdam 1990), defends the thesis that it is both possible
and necessary to understand and explain Nazism and the extermination of
Jews. Whether it is by Elias's own theory of social exclusion, or by his modified
version of historical sociology that examines the German habitus and collective
identity (or lack thereof), the author agrees that "to understand and explain"
would in fact summarize the mission of sociology, which must thus contribute
to avoiding other Nazisms and other genocides. Or this preventive task cannot
be achieved by the mere recollection and condemnation of history.

This paper addresses the issue of food in survivalism. Based on a netnography of the French Survivalist Network (RSF), it aims to understand the value system developed by this culture obsessed with the end of the world.