Poverty, social ties, ecology… The new podium for the SES high school student book prize once again touches on varied but central societal issues.
Braving the distance learning courses, the health crisis, the program to complete and the preparation of the French baccalaureate, our first year students and their SES teachers took the time to read, share their points of view, and select three books among the 8 proposed.
Their peers from many other high schools also voted, and in the end, for the year 2020/2021, the student juries awarded the SES High School Book Prize to our favorite book:
Where does the poor’s money go?
Political fantasies, sociological realities by Denis Colombi, (Sociologist professor… of SES!) published by Payot in 2020
See Denis Colombi :
Second place goes to:
- Those who remain. Making a living in the declining countryside written by Benoît Coquard, La Découverte 2019
And, very close (1 point) on the third step, the students chose:
- A planet to save: Six challenges for 2050 by Serge Marti, edited by Odile Jacob in 2020
Thanks again to Fabien Meynier and Frédéric Desmedt, coordinators of the High School Book Prize for Economics and Social Sciences
The selection for the year 2020-21 was:
