Abstract This research bridges populism and populist social movement studies to address the question of how left‐ and right‐wing populists unite in a common social movement. Using the novel “à la carte” (ALC) embedding regression model, it analyzes a unique dataset of 5,342 protesters and supporters from the Yellow Vests movement in France, capturing their understandings of the People from responses to open‐ended questions. Findings reveal that while left‐ and right‐wing populists diverge in their understandings of the People, differences are not politically divisive and do not preclude common vocabularies allowing for identification with the movement. This study contributes to the literature by showcasing the innovative application of the embedding regression method to textual data collected during social movements. Whereas research on the subject is predominantly qualitative, this study employs quantitative techniques to demonstrate that identification with the People fosters a unified movement despite divergent political beliefs and contrasting social identity frames.

Más alla de la tradicion sociológica que ratifica sin reservas la legitimidad de una objetivacion del suicidio, este articulo asume sin reservas una reflexión epistemológica dirigida a interrogarse sobre la manera en que el suicidio adviene a la sociologia. siguiendo una perspectiva genealogica, el autor muestra como la idea del suicidio se impone desde fuera a la sociología de Durkheim, en la que encuentra su lugar al convertirse en el indice de una patologia social que corregir. elevando a continuación la idea del suicidio al rango de una aporia referida a la antinomia individuo-sociedad, subraya que la ambigüedad de la sociologia del suicidio consiste en el hecho de que sirve de soporte metasociológico cara a la afirmacion de la teoria sociológica.