Online-gaming (OG) is a fast-growing phenomenon that could have a major impact in people's life. This study analyses the impact online-gaming has on cohabitational-love relationships and outsiders of the OG world. The study is based on six qualitative interviews with couples engaged in the world of internet-usage and OG. The interviews were performed both individually and together with their partner. There are many positive effects that comes with internet and OG, but there are also plenty of negative. Central questions for this study are therefore how OG are perceived within the relationships and how the potential consequences it leads to are dealt with. The study also discusses who the problem initiator is, and how the negotiation within the relationship looks like. Previous research shows conflict as a result of too much time spent with online-gaming. The result of this study therefore aspires to add a complementary layer to what may be the cause of these conflicts. The result shows that a lack of accountability and too much time spent involved with OG creates reasons for conflict. The presented solution included mutual agreement for what is to be seen as a fair amount of time spent with OG. If the time exceeds stated agreement, it seemed to be a reason for conflict. But if not, OG would mostly be seen as something positive for both parties when it comes to their individual well-being.

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No / According to leading sociological theorists we have now entered a 'late modern' epoch of 'de-traditionalisation' and 'individualisation'. Families are crucial in this vision, where the social ties of kinship and marriage are weakened, increasingly replaced by the project of self. In this paper we take three geographical indices of central elements of the individualisation thesis, examining the distribution in Britain of same sex couples, births to cohabitants, and mothers' withdrawal from the worker role. Analysis of all three indices give support to two levels of criticism of individualisation theory. First, pre-existing social structures have not gone away; the prevalence and the effect of the components of family form and change examined here seem deeply influenced by pre-existing local structural conditions. Secondly, the analysis supports the criticism that while people might indeed have more room for manoeuvre in late modern society, and may well be less constrained by older traditions, this does not necessarily mean individualisation. The behavioural components of individualisation theory may be a non-sequitor from the observation of changing family forms. We conclude that it seems likely that individualisation may be better conceptualised as one part of pre-existing social and structural processes, and that its behavioural assumptions are unjustified.

Les concepts de districts industriels et de clusters sont nés du constat que, dans des régions peu métropolisées, des entreprises opérant dans un même secteur d’activité pouvaient développer des dynamiques de collaboration particulières, dues notamment à leur proximité spatiale.Théorisés pour l’industrie, ces concepts ont été transférés au tourisme, puis repris par les décideurs institutionnels comme modèles de développement touristique local. Les études en tourisme sur le sujet sont assez récentes et nous avons souhaité contribuer à la réflexion. Nous avons tout d’abord réalisé une revue de littérature, pour identifier de quelle manière ces modèles ont été adaptés aux spécificités du tourisme. Étant donné que les touristes sont absents de la plupart des analyses, qui se concentrent sur les acteurs de l’offre, nous avons renversé la clé de lecture,en centrant notre travail sur les touristes, leurs pratiques et leurs relations aux lieux. L’objectif de cette recherche est de comprendre comment, en habitant temporairement les lieux, les touristes deviennent des acteurs, à part entière, du système productif local et comment leurs pratiques influencent la gouvernance et la configuration spatiale du territoire. Un travail de terrain a donc été mené en Italie, à Rimini et sur la Riviera romagnole. Le choix d’une analyse diachronique, nous a amenée à exploiter des archives,travail que nous avons complété par des entretiens réalisés auprès de touristes et de professionnels. Il s’agit en définitive d’une analyse sur le temps long, de comment en habitant des lieux, les touristes participent à la création localisée de dynamiques économiques,sociales et spatiales. / The concepts of industrial districts and clusters stem from the insight that companies operating in the same line of business in non-metropolised regions may develop special collaboration dynamics, due in particular to spatial proximity.Theorised within the field of industry, these concepts have been transferred on tourism and are now being used by institutional decision-makers as development models for local tourism. The studies of their application to tourism are recent and we wanted to provide further insight. We first went through literature to identify how the models have been adapted to match tourism,specifically. We noted that the tourists were absent from most analyses, which concentrated on the suppliers. Wetherefore deliberately took another standpoint and targeted the tourists, their habits and their relation to the location. Our purpose was to understand how tourists,who live but temporarily on the site, become integral lplayers in the local productive system and how their behaviour influences the governance and spatial configuration of the territory. We did extensive fieldwork in Italy, in Rimini and on the Romagna Riviera. We opted for a diachronic analysis and completed our archive findings with interviews, questioning both tourists and professionals. Thus, this study builds on long-time analysis of how, through their stay, tourists contribute to local economic, social and spatial dynamics.