Conference highlights of the 15th international conference on human retrovirology: HTLV and related retroviruses, 4-8 june 2011, Leuven, Gembloux, Belgium

The June 2011 15th International Conference on Human Retrovirology: HTLV and Related Viruses marks approximately 30 years since the discovery of HTLV-1. As anticipated, a large number of abstracts were submitted and presented by scientists, new and old to the field of retrovirology, from all five continents. The aim of this review is to distribute the scientific highlights of the presentations as analysed and represented by experts in specific fields of epidemiology, clinical research, immunology, animal models, molecular and cellular biology, and virology

Cultural Domains and Class Structure: Assessing Homologies and Cultural Legitimacy

International audienceIt is well known that the figures representing the French social space in Distinction (Bourdieu 1979) are based on several partial analyses. This means that one of Pierre Bourdieu’s central hypotheses – the structural homology between social and cultural spaces as wholes – was not empirically tested by way of correspondence analysis (although Bourdieu did perform such an analysis for the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie). Furthermore, many of the sociological discussions of cultural practices which have appeared since the publishing of Distinction use data describing a single taste domain, often music. This is beginning to change, as large-scale surveys have been conducted for Australia (Bennett et al. 1999), Norway (Rosenlund 2000), Porto in Portugal (Borges Pereira 2005), Aalborg in Denmark (Prieur et al. 2008), Great Britain (Bennett et al. 2009) – but not for France. Furthermore, as it has never been empirically tested, it is not obvious that cultural tastes constitute a homogeneous universe of practices. They can be structured by domains, depending on the relative autonomy of their respective fields of production: taste in music is not necessarily distributed in the same way as taste in books, and their relation to the social space may also differ. The French survey on cultural practices Pratiques culturelles des Français (PCF 2008), enables new implementations and tests of these hypotheses through empirical analysis

Comment identifier des configurations temporelles à partir d’outils sémantiques - Intérêts et difficultés de l’association de Prospéro et MAO

International audienceHow to Identify Temporal Configurations with Semantic Tools – Advantages and Difficulties in Associating Prospero and OMA: This article focuses on the opportunities for the sociologist in the development and describing methodologically successive socio-discursive configurations from the perspective of sociology attentive to public issues or collective actions. Noting that it is difficult and costly to reproduce thematic analyzes whenever the corpus evolves and refines research questions, the challenge is to develop computerized tools to accompany the researcher’s reasoning while obliging reflexive thought and permitting the production of data to test hypotheses. With an experimental approach coupling the features of the Prospero and TraMineR (in R software) computer programs, we propose a research protocol which aims to obtain information on dynamic, heterogeneous and complex processes that we would like to be able to equate for at least some aspects. The path is to establish typologies of sequences from semantic data and their optimal matching