Les usages sociaux de l'automobile : concurrence pour l'espace et accidents - article ; n°2 ; vol.1, pg 25-49

Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales - Année 1975 - Volume 1 - Numéro 2 - Pages 25-49
The social uses of the automobile : competition for space and accidents In order to make a sociological analysis of traffic accidents, one must renounce any pretensions to a psychoanalytical analysis of the agression instinct and take into account the property that the drivers owe to the position they occupy in the social structure. One can take for a hypothesis that the multiplication of automobiles, substituting the scarcity of driving space for the scarcity of motor vehicles, tends to engender a competition between drivers and between groups for the appropriation of that fraction of common space that constitutes road space. The lower the position occupied by the agent in the social hierarchy, the less well armed he is to engage in this competition.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.