Born from the merger of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Sociology, Political Science and Economics (IRISES) and the Centre for Studies and Research in the Sociology of Organizations (CERSO), IRISSO integrated a new component on 1 January 2015: LCP (formerly CNRS’s own research unit – Political Communication Laboratory).
Then, following a process of rapprochement initiated in 2015, researchers and administrative managers from INRA’s RiTME (Risks, Labour, Contracts, State) unit joined IRISSO at the end of April 2017.
Sociologists, historians or politicians, these new members of IRISSO work on health and environmental risks, particularly in the fields of agriculture and food. They are interested in how these risks are defined and governed at many scales of public action.
The research of our new INRA colleagues covers topics as diverse as food safety and nutritional quality, global food safety, the government of toxic substances used in agriculture, agricultural markets and animal health policies. On the basis of surveys with a high empirical content, they contribute to several fields of sociological study, such as the sociology of public action, economic sociology or the sociology of science.
IRISSO is a Joint Research Unit of the CNRS, associated with the University of Paris-Dauphine/PSL* which includes sociologists, politicians and economists.
IRISSO has 108 members, including 16 CNRS, 30 UParis-Dauphine PSL, 9 INRA, 38 doctoral students, 6 post-docs, 3 trainees, 2 BIATOSS, 3 IR/TCH, 1 AI
IRISSO’s central research focus is on public and private regulations, their articulation and transformations. IRISSO’s work focuses on the sociology of the economic worlds and the analysis of public action.
The laboratory is structured into two thematic axes and three transversal themes