by Hervé Le Bras, Emmanuel Todd · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021102161
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«Le mystère français» is the essay by Hervé Le Bras and Emmanuel Todd on French society, published by Seuil in the La République des Idées collection (308 pages, in French).
Between 1980 and 2010, the book analyses with over a hundred maps the diversity of customs in France and the acceleration of social change: educational rise, female emancipation, transformation of marriage, deindustrialisation, immigration or voting shifts. The authors diagnose an imbalance between the country's liberal and egalitarian heart and its Catholic and hierarchical periphery, and argue that leaders, ignorant of these deep structures, worsen their problems with inadequate policies.
Essays on French society and history; the French paperback edition was published on 21 March 2013 in the La République des Idées collection.
Recommended for those interested in sociology, electoral geography and analysis of inequality in France.
Hervé Le Bras is a French demographer and historian.
