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Pierre-Yves Wauthier

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M. Pierre-Yves Wauthier

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PhD in Sociology from the Universities of Geneva and Louvain (2020), and Master in Social Anthropology, Pierre-Yves Wauthier is currently a postdoctoral fellow at , , France.

He developed a scientific interest in the diversification of family forms as a manifestation of recent major cultural shifts in Western societies. His topics of research encompass uncertainties in relationships, attachment bonds, sexualities, dwellings and family functions in "liquid societies". He is now busy on a prospective research project focusing on ecological Transition policies and their effects on family forms.

He specialized in ethnomethods, speech analysis and socio-semiotics, in order to hightlight social construction of human-human and human-environment interactions. He has also developped skills in life course analysis and Widmer's configurational approach of family studies.

His doctoral dissertation on "deconjugalized families" is now published by Peter Lang edition | Vol. 36 | 2022, available as an open access book, . Wauthier is also the author of a monographic essay on the meaning of couple’s formation in a social context of more frequent break-ups and serial monogamies: “” (Academia-L’Harmattan Edition, 2015).

He is a guest lecturer at (AVƵ of Louvain) and at the Certificat en Sexologie Clinique (AVƵ).

 List of publications available .


Sociologie