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Gérard Prévost, « « Nouvelle citoyenneté » ou dépolitisation du citoyen ? », L'Homme et la société, ID : 10.3406/homso.1996.2857
Gérard Prévost, A « New Citizenship » or the Depoliticization of the Citizen ? The new social question reflects the weakening of the Rousseauian polity that new public policies attempt to present in the form of social management. With the « new citizen » as social actor structured by another notion of well-being, the question is one of adaptation to the present imperatives of the capitalist system. However, the totalitarianism of organizational forms, unconsidered by sociologists, cannot escape conflicts of representation and political and symbolic struggles expressive of class conflicts.