The Prime Minister will enthrone this afternoon the committee responsible for considering the future nationality code. Interview with sociologist Alain TOURAINE, one of the fifteen members of the Commission. For him, the law must be adapted to the real situation. The majority of young people born in France to foreign parents want to integrate. We must avoid ghettos and show that French society is open, dynamic and capable of assimilating. We must give confidence to France and French society.
Interview with sociologist Alain TOURAINE who publishes his latest book "l'après socialisme". He explains his observation: "on the left, political opinion and the political model that represents it no longer correspond" ... "socialism as aspiration, as popular sentiment is not dead"... " On a world scale socialism, which has been the expression of popular forces, has in many cases become the instrument of strengthening the industrialising state."
As part of the Festival de géographie, Alain TOURAINE, sociologist and geographer by training, gives a course to high school students from Saint-Dié. Interview with Alain TOURAINE who considers this generation quite philosophical. Reactions of students who enjoyed their meeting with the sociologist.
Le sociologue Alain TOURAINE s'exprime sur la notion de gaspillage et dénonce certains aspects de la société de consommation. Il évoque les tonnes de déchets californiens se retrouvant au Mexique : "Les côtes de la Californie mexicaine sont souillées par les ordures de la riche Californie du Nord, les centres urbains le plus riches évacuent leurs ordures vers les catégories sociales les plus basses".
Alain TOURAINE, sociologist, describes the causes of the protest political mobilization of youth, including the need to express demands that are not taken into account. "The youth who are not given political rights exercise them"
Alain TOURAINE, professor of sociology at the Faculté de Nanterre, talks about youth unemployment. It partly explains the difficulty of young people in finding employment by the inadequacy of vocational training. "In many cases the training received is inadequate for job opportunities".