Vocabularies of happiness

This paper seeks to explore through interviews the vocabularies of happiness that interviewees invoke in face-to-face interactions to account for their happiness or lack thereof and, especially, for the (un)happiness of...

Women teachers and policemen: different career transition paths to becoming lawyers

Within a larger study of career transition to law, a number of individuals were identified as having come from two occupational clusters, policing and teaching. These interviewee occupations were for the most part each c...

From “reversed quota” to “ invisible quota” in the recruitment of the descendants of immigrants for public service jobs

Through a qualitative comparison study of the hiring of the descendants of immigrants for public service jobs in France and in the Netherlands, this article highlights the selection mechanisms implemented by local human...

Qualman, Eric. (2009) Socialnomics: how social media transforms the way we live and do business. John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey

The emergence of genderfluidity and postgenderism in the make-up world

Make-up has been a gendered concept for centuries. Its use has been attributed almost exclusively to women in several historical eras, including modernity. However, I noticed two recent trends regarding this subject: the...