statistics

nationality

French

occupation / innovator as

sociologist

university professor

École des hautes études en sciences sociales

innovator in the field of

sociology

is that which has taken the place of subjects.

There is, in fact, no longer a relation of immediacy with a subject because there is no longer a subject. What the new preventive policies primarily address is no longer individuals but factors, statisticalcorrelations of heterogeneous elements. .... They deconstruct the concrete subject of intervention, and reconstruct a combination of factors liable to produce risk. Their primary aim is not to confront a concrete dangerous situation, but to anticipate all the possible forms of irruption of danger. (Castel F Effect 288).

Robert Castel

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