Contemporary French Farmers Unions at the Age of Uncertainty Eric Doidy, François Purseigle
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Troubled rootedness : contemporary French farmers unions at the age of uncertainty Eric Doidy, François Purseigle To cite this version: Eric Doidy, François Purseigle. Troubled rootedness : contemporary French farmers unions at the age of uncertainty. 8. Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association. Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society, Sep 2007, Glasgow, United Kingdom. hal-02753714 HAL Id: hal-02753714 https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02753714 Submitted on 3 Jun 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society Theme of the Conference Europe is experiencing extensive transformations that disturb traditional political institutions and explode periodically into deep conflict. Political interpretation of these events is contested and reasons 'traditional' and 'new' vie for explanatory efficacy. Conflicts associated with migration, generation, gender, precarious labour, urban tension and cultural and religious intolerance are spliced by inequality, discrimination, poverty and exclusion thus complicating notions of belonging and citizenship. As politics is focused on conflict and its resolution debates about civil society have come to the forefront and classic concepts born during the Scottish Enlightenment have been revitalized. Contents Page Research Networks RN 1 Ageing In Europe 2 RN 2 Sociology of the Arts 32 RN 3 Biographical Perspectives on European Societies 44 RN 4 Sociology of Children and Childhood 55 RN 5 Sociology of Consumption 76 RN 6 Critical Political Economy 92 RN 7 Sociology of Culture 99 RN 8 Disaster and Social Crisis 116 RN 9 Economic Sociology 122 RN 10 Sociology of Education 133 RN 11 Sociology of Emotions 149 RN 12 Environment and Society 159 RN 13 Sociology of Families and Intimate Lives 184 RN 14 Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the Welfare State 213 RN 16 Sociology of Health and Illness 227 RN 18 Sociology of Communications and Media Research 250 RN 19 Sociology of Professions 261 RN 20 Qualitative Methods 288 RN 21 RENCORE: Methods for Comparitive Research on Europe 302 RN 22 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty 309 RN 24 Science and Technology 330 RN 25 Social Movements 345 RN 26 Sociology of Social Policy 358 RN 27 Regional Network on Southern European Societies 367 RN 28 Society and Sports 373 RN 29 Social Theory 377 RN 30 Youth and Generation 391 Research Streams RS 1 Sociology of Celebration 418 RS 2 Reassessing Class in Contemporary Sociology 419 RS 3 Disability, Citizenship and Uncivil Society 426 RS 4 Enlargement of the European Union 430 RS 5 Evolution and Sociology 436 RS 6 Global Governance 441 RS 7 Historical Sociology 446 RS 8 Europe and Immigration 450 RS 9 Rethinking the Intergenerational transmission of inequalities 458 RS 10 Legal Plurism in Europe: Common Regulations and Local Practices 461 RS 11 Memory, Culture and Conflict 463 RS 12 Contemporary Methods in Migration Research 472 RS 13 Minority Status and ambivalent identities in plural societies 479 RS 14 Resisting Neoliberalism 489 RS 15 Public sociology and commitment in action 497 RS 16 Sociology of Racism 501 RS 17 Sociology of Religions 513 Russia in a Changing World: The Dynamics and Quality of Citizenship and RS 18 Civil Society 519 RS 19 Urban Sociology and Cities 527 RS 20 Work and Organisation 538 1 RN 1: Ageing In Europe Conveners: Andreas Motel-Klingebiel, German Centre of Gerontology, Germany, Ricca Edmondson, National University of Ireland, Ireland & Anna Ruzik, Institute of Labour and Social Studies, Poland Session 1a: Active Ageing between Labour Markets and Retirement 1 Tuesday 4th, 09.00 - 11.00, Room K3.25 Chair: Tbc 1. Stephanie Stuck, University of Mannheim, Germany Co-author Dr Karsten Hank, University of Mannheim, Germany Volunteer Work, Informal Help, and Care – Dimensions of Productive Ageing and Their Societal Determinants in Continental Europe Unpaid productive activities performed by older citizens constitute a valuable contribution to our ageing societies’ general welfare. Recent descriptive analyses of three important dimensions of such unpaid activities – volunteering, informal helping, and caring – suggest a pattern of cross-national variations that is very similar to the picture one gets when comparing labour force participation rates of the 50+ in Europe. Using micro-data from the 2004 ‘Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe’ (SHARE), we investigate determinants of productive ageing in 11 countries. While controlling for a wide array of individual characteristic, the focus of our analysis is on the role of macro-level indicators related to a country’s welfare state, non profit, or gender regimes. Preliminary results suggest that – net of effects resulting from differences in population composition – statistically significant contextual (‘regime’) effects persist for all three dimensions of unpaid productive activities covered in this study. The precise mechanisms through which our ‘regime’ indicators work on older adults’ propensity to engage themselves in productive ways are yet to be determined. Our findings support welfare state policies and programs designed to encourage elderly citizens to make use of their productive potential. 2. Anja Lemke, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Co-author Dr Marcel Erlinghagen, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Retirement and participation in volunteer work: Evidence from German panel data Since life expectancy has enormously increased during the last decades the question arises if and how the participation of older people particularly in volunteering should be encouraged. From an individual perspective it seems that especially after retirement the preconditions are well suited for an individual engagement in such activities: First of all, retirees should have enough free time to volunteer. Furthermore it is suggested that older people seek for new forms of social ties because some labour-centred social networks have lost there importance due to retirement. Thus, in a social perspective an increasing or at least stable social inclusion of older people via volunteering should have a positive impact on the individual well being and, therefore, on the reduction of social costs. However, it is an open research question if and under which conditions the event of retirement really has a significant positive impact on volunteering. Therefore, event history analyses based on German panel data will be presented. The dataset includes life history information like former volunteering experiences as well as cohort information which serve as explanatory variables. These results will not only improve our knowledge about the determinants of volunteering of older people but will also make an important contribution to the debate on “productive ageing”. 3. Mrs Lucy Bangali, University of Tuebingen, Germany Externalization and Integration – Two Patterns of Ageing in Germany backed up with Contradictions The paper is based on the findings of two projects, which examined the awareness of managers regarding the ageing society and its effects on enterprises, the labour force 2 participation trends of older workers as well as personnel trends and age-specific risks and segmentation on the labour market. It is empirically based on 50 interviews, a survey with 4.000 questionnaires carried out in the Metal and Electronic Industry and Trade in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as on secondary data analysis. One of the major results of the project is the paradox facing the labour market situation of older workers and the ensuing policy paths dominated by the two patterns of externalization through extensive “early retirement” – which had been and is still practiced in the firms and organisations – and integration and employability as a focus of social policies and discourse to enable workers to enter and stay in paid labour until the “normal retirement age” of 65 or 67 as from the year 2011. Social partners as well as the state play an important role in this setting. This paper will thereby suggest the following questions: What is the cause of the two patterns? In what way are they actually reflecting the various interests of the social partners and the state? What explains their differences? Can the different patterns be explained by the interdependency between “labour” and “welfare”? Are the integration policies on the political agenda not trying to legitimate and shift social security costs to workers by extending the pension age to 67? While trying to answer these questions, the exit vs. the entry patterns very much reflect the various interests, instruments and incentives of all social partners and the state, which this paper will outline and analyse. 4. Professor Judith Phillips, Swansea University, Wales Co-author Professor Anne Martin-Matthews, University of British Columbia, Canada Blurring the boundaries: ageing at the intersection of home and work life Over the last 20 years there has been increasing interest in the social sciences literature, primarily led by feminist writers, on the subject of boundaries