La logique de l’acte de classification : postulat ou question pour l’analyse de la mobilité
This paper examines a series of postulates upon which rest the analyses of mobility, in particular the fundamental social unanimity that would govern orientations within a social formation. The author attempts to show that the desirability criteria are still not well established and that in all case...
| Published in: | Sociologie et sociétés |
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| Language: | French |
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Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal
1976
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7202/001283ar http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/001283ar |
| Summary: | This paper examines a series of postulates upon which rest the analyses of mobility, in particular the fundamental social unanimity that would govern orientations within a social formation. The author attempts to show that the desirability criteria are still not well established and that in all cases, the idea of unanimity with respect to them is ill-founded; from this comes the danger of defining a rationality in the process of status attainment which implies a unanimity with respect to the scale of desirability. In order to eliminate 22. R. Savard, " L'hôte maladroit, essai d'analyse d'un conte montagnais ", Interprétation, vol. 4, n° 3, déc. 1969, p. 48. thé danger of postulating a social unanimity which hinders any analysis of meaning, and also in order to indicate the paths that such an analysis can take, the author presents in the second part the conclusions of a study based on texts written in class by students of diverse social origins, and allowing one to define the set of categories that they use for classifying the people around them; this analysis provides evidence for the ideological loading which bears upon the rationality of the " petit-bourgeois " discourse at the elementary level of the definition of fundamental categories, as well as for the resistance offered to it by the working class discourse. Ce texte reprend une série de postulats sur lesquels reposent les analyses de mobilité, en particulier l'unanimité sociale fondamentale qui gouvernerait les orientations au sein d'une formation sociale. L'auteur tente de montrer que les critères de désirabilité sont encore mal établis et qu'en tout cas, l'idée d'unanimité à leur sujet est mal fondée, d'où le danger de définir une rationalité dans le processus de la réussite sociale qui implique une unanimité au sujet de l'échelle du désirable. Dans le but d'éliminer le danger du postulat de l'unanimité sociale qui raie toute analyse du sens, dans le but également d'indiquer les voies que ce type d'analyse peut prendre, l'auteur présente dans un ... |
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