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The book of D. Fassin La Force de l'ordre produces an analysis of French anti-crime police units named BAC. The survey results, similar to those established for several years by the sociology of the police, are linked to a triple ambition: to carry out an anthropology of public/social order in working-class districts and, ultimately, of the state; to conduct a comprehensive analysis of police action in order to make it possible to criticize this action; to generate a public debate on police practices. These three objectives are thwarted, respectively, by the poverty of the descriptions mobilized by the author, by the asymmetric treatment he reserves to the actors and, finally, by a misconception of the relationships between social sciences and society. Adapted from the source document.

This article aims at exploring again the relationship between legitimate violence and the police. Based on an original sociological investigation of the General Inspection of Services (IGS, also called 'the police of the police services'), it deals with the police force through the study of the accusations of illegitimate violence made against police officers. The reasons why few of these accusations lead to administrative sanctions are linked to the way investigations are conducted. Actually, the police acts which are the most severely condemned are the ones which undermine the public nature of police action. This paper shows that sociological studies of the police have not only to examine the classical issue of the legitimate violence uses, but also to seriously question the way the public nature of police action constraints it. Adapted from the source document.

As an introduction to the topic of the issue, we outline in this paper the matters and assumptions of a sociology unstable political forms, as they are given to see in contexts caught in the gap between war and peace. With this regard, we emphasize the benefits we expect from paying attention to phenomena of disconfinement and resocialization of war, observable, beyond the case of the 'new wars', through types of actions and devices that conform to a rationality of war and, simultaneously, coexist with the expectation of an at least relatively stable political order. We also insist on certain lines of analysis of the interactions between rights, violence and institutions apparent in such configurations. Adapted from the source document.

During the last thirty years, the researchers working within the orientation known as 'pragmatic sociology' have produced a considerable amount of empirical investigations relating to all areas of social life. In accordance with the theoretical and methodological assumptions they intended to defend, they have developed significantly new ways to conduct their inquiries, to collect data, to explore their fields, to think through the cases and controversies they used as entry points to explore the social order and its always problematic reproduction. The aim of this paper is to characterize by highlighting ten points the pragmatic style in sociology and to specify what are its methodological requisites and practical implications in the conduct of research. Adapted from the source document.