Didier Demazière facts for kids

Didier Demazière is a French sociologist. A sociologist is a scientist who studies how people live and work together in groups. He is an expert in understanding unemployment, which means studying people who are looking for jobs but don't have one. In 2012, he worked as a Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. This is a big research organization in France. He was part of the Centre for the Sociology of Organizations, which works with Sciences Po, a famous university.

What Didier Demazière Studies

Didier Demazière is very interested in how jobs and work affect people's lives. He looks at how people without jobs feel about themselves. He also studies how they might still feel like they have a "professional identity."

Understanding Unemployment

As a sociologist who studies work and industries, he became very interested in unemployment. He wanted to know if people who are unemployed still feel like they have a "job identity." For example, if someone was a teacher and then became unemployed, does that person still feel like a teacher?

He also studies other groups who do things that feel like a job, even if they don't get paid. For example, he looked at people who create "free software". This is software that anyone can use, change, and share freely. He wondered why these people spent so much time on it. Was it like volunteering to help others? Was it a form of activism to support open sharing? Or did it feel like a real job, even without a salary?