Sociology

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Thinking the African Paradigm with Pierre Mutunda Mwembo

Jean Willy Biayi

This special issue, composed for Pierre Mutunda Mwembo on the occasion of his admission to emeritus, attempts - as is customary - to address one of the preoccupations of the man to whom we pay tribute.

We have therefore chosen to prod...

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The Future is Our Business: A Guided Tour of Foresight Research

Mutunda Mwembo Pierre Professeur Emérite

This text confirms the locomotor role of foresight in interdisciplinary research. He specifies that this science does not want to blend into prophecy, divinatory art, rigid and inflexible prediction... In addition to being rational, methodical ...

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Gender-indexing phoric elements in idioms

Francis Ngoyi Créqui Tshimanga

Although some elements of idioms are more or less fixed, phoric elements seem to be the most flexible since they are interpretable only with consideration of their coreferential antecedents whose features they mirror. Among the most mirrored fe...

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The Democratic Republic of Congo between abolitionism and retentionism of the death penalty

Charles Kazadi Bengankuna Kanyinda Ph.D

The Democratic Republic of Congo teeters between abolitionism and retentionism of the death penalty. Indeed, at the same time as it enshrines in article 215 the primacy of international public order, the Congolese DR constituent restricts, in a...

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The elections of November 28, 2011 and their socio-political and economic consequences

Moïse Kalenga Tshiananga

The presidential and legislative elections organized in the Democratic Republic of Congo on November 28, 2011, were the subject of much criticism and protests throughout the world. This is why, with the aim of trying to seek light on this subje...

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Investigating the Effectiveness of the Techniques Applied to Teach Vocabulary in MbujiMayi

Franklin Tshimanga Bukasa PhD Student

This paper is about the mismatch between vocabulary (its nature and importance in language) and the techniques used for teaching it. It is obvious that vocabulary is not solely a given meaning of a word; it is actually the study of the words of...

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Consensus and Dissensus with Jürgen Habermas

Jean Willy Biayi

A society thrives on dialogue, rational public deliberation, negotiation, compromise, consensus. But this requirement for consensus cannot be indifferent to differences, that is to say, to spaces of heterogeneity or “dissensus”. To think correc...

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