Didier Demazière

Didier Demazière is a French sociologist specializing in the study of unemployment; in 2012, he was a Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research., assigned to the Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO, in English Centre for the Sociology of Organizations), in partnership with Sciences Po.

For a sociology of unemployment?
As an industrial sociologist, he became interested in the field through the analysis of unemployment, in particular, questioning the emergence of a professional identity of the unemployed. As such, he is also interested in other emerging fields claiming "pseudo-professional" identities; for example, he has worked around the status of free software developer in a free software community and questioned the reasons for such a commitment, hesitating between volunteering, activism and professionalism.