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This article’s objective consists in questioning the concepts used by researchers in the social sciences so as to understand radicalisation processes described as Islamic. If certain university disciplines like geopolitics or psychology propose global explanations on the subject of radicalisation, sociologists appear to be more reserved or, in any case, more moderate as to the analyses to bring to the phenomenon. For that matter, the very concept of radicalisation is provoking debate within the discipline. Indeed, the various approaches in sociology remain too compartmentalised to permit a consensual analysis of jihadism to emerge. Hence the task here is one of proposing an inventory of some of the concepts mobilized in the social sciences on urban revolts in order to take a step back from the overarching interpretations of the phenomenon. Thus the concepts expo­sed here may not only clarify certain aspects of this complex object in analysing the paths of jihadists more closely, but also demonstrate complementarity with a view to enriching our knowledge of a controversial phenomenon.

This article proposes to study from a research field the question of the feeling of injustice among young people living in urban neighborhoods. It is thus a question of going back on our old works by proposing a reflection around concepts like that of frustration, of «denied subjectivities», of «politicity» or even of moral economy. To better apprehend the political, social and symbolic stakes which are at the origin of a sense of injustice conveyed by a large number of young people met in the popular districts whatever the origin, the trajectory or the social status, we opted for the notion of moral economy. Indeed, this notion could make it possible to better understand the context in which the sometimes harsh discourses of these young people develop, insofar as the moral economy in a dialectical understanding envisages the springs of action starting from anger and despair. which in fact masks a moral aspiration to justice and citizenship.

Enfants d’ouvriers et d’immigrés pour la plupart, les jeunes dits « de cité » sont les déshérités du monde ouvrier et de son système social. Depuis plus de deux générations, ces jeunes ont développé des modes de vie qui leur sont, en partie, spécifiques : entre « culture de rue », pratiques religieuses musulmanes et, pour contrecarrer le chômage et la précarité, entrée dans une petite délinquance de masse. Bien que les trajectoires sociales soient diverses chez les « jeunes de cité », ces derniers sont confrontés à des difficultés économiques et sociales auxquelles s’ajoutent les effets des discriminations et de la ségrégation urbaine qui en font irrémédiablement des « boucs émissaires ». En réponse à ces nombreux obstacles émerge chez ces jeunes un sentiment d’injustice unanimement partagé.

This article’s objective are the understanding of the directories of the political youth called “cities”. For this, we must concern ourselves with life’s styles of the young people structured over 30 years now about unemployment and job insecurity and new forms of segregation. This creates youth frustration manifested as a feeling of injustice more or less diffuse. If the urban riots of action in the most media, a number of young adults from the “cities” are responding through a number of national associations and local initiatives as evidenced by the recent elections.

The feeling of injustice amongst young residents of a working class housing estate This paper helps us understand the views held by the youth of a working class housing estate in the Paris suburbs on our institutions and society. It is based on participative observations and the transcriptions of informal discussions between the youngsters in their residential area. These youngsters are not a homogenous group because of age differences, schooling and also cultural practices which colour their vision of our institutions and society. Students are mainly interested in the world of employment, which they consider discriminatory, delinquents feel that they are in conflict with the police and practicing Muslims dread the presence of intelligence services. However, despite different routes, these youngsters also share a common past based on migration, working class social origins and share the same residential space which, paradoxically, leads to a common perception where cynicism accompanies their views of the society in which they live.

Noting the deterioration of the image of the police against residents of neighborhoods in urban areas, this article examines the perception that young can have the police institution. This is an observation restore youth work reports / Police going to meet young people identified as belonging to bands that circulate in the neighborhood Châtelet-les-Halles. If the vast majority of young people go to Les Halles to eat and be entertained, however, we noted the existence of this field of inquiry, three groups of young people experiencing difficulties with the police. Empirical observation of these three groups showed us that there were tensions between the police operating in the sector and a number of young people labeled as "deviant". But the level of intensity of violence between police and three groups differs depending on whether one belongs to a strip coming from the suburbs, which is West Indian immigrant surviving through small trades or, finally, we is a young living in extreme social vulnerability. The context of "sensitive stage" - namely tourist and commercial district in the center of the capital - there is, it seems, to many.