Représentations du devenir et reproduction sociale

Le cas des lycéens d'Elbeuf

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ID2805890
AuthorsOlivier Galland (0000-0002-8087-428X, corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume30
Issue3
Pages399-417
Publication date1988-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologie du Travail (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0296 • E-ISSN: 1777-5701
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/sotra.1988.2414
OpenAlexW2793694164
LanguageFR
Citations received9

On the basis of a 1986 survey of 830 secondary school students in Elbeuf (a small, industrial, working class town in Normandy), the theory of social reproduction is critically reviewed. The growing demand for education, as a result of the increasing number of course options (in particular technical ones), centers these student's conceptions of their familial and occupational futures around the effect of school as a means of promotion. Can we continue seeing this sort of conception as but a means of submission, disenchantment and consecration, in line with Bourdieux's arguments ? This survey draws attention to the emergence of an innovative social group : girls, whether from the working or middle classes, for whom school is a promotion but through course options with uncertain futures. These girl students are much less conformist than boys, much more ambitious and perhaps also more rebellious against classical models of reproduction

Conformist · Economics · Futures contract · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Reproduction · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Education, sociology, and vocational training · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Social Policies and Family

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