An exploration of the working classes starting from their middle fractions: A two-pronged approach, through statistics and case studies

Autor: Thomas AMOSSE, Lise Bernard, Marie Cartier, Marie-Hélène Lechien, Yasmine Siblot
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économique (LISE), Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM), HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM)-HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CMH), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département de Sciences sociales ENS-PSL, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Centre Nantais de Sociologie (CENS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Nantes Université - UFR Sociologie (Nantes Univ - UN UFRS), Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), Groupe de REcherches Sociologiques sur les sociétés COntemporaines (GRESCO), Université de Poitiers-Institut Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IR SHS UNILIM), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM), Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris (CRESPPA), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Olivier Masclet, Thomas Amossé, Lise Bernard, et al.
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Zdroj: HAL
Subaltern Workers in Contemporary France. To Be like Everyone Else
Olivier Masclet, Thomas Amossé, Lise Bernard, et al. Subaltern Workers in Contemporary France. To Be like Everyone Else, Routledge, In press, 9781032360577
Popis: International audience; This chapter presents the design and implementation of our collective research program. The research combines quantitative analyses of public statistical surveys with in-depth qualitative case studies of households with relative economic stability. The statistical analyses help to compensate for the lack of recent sociological work on the working classes. They furthermore reveal that the internal structure of the working classes is relatively stratified into ‘upper’, ‘middle’, and ‘lower’ tiers, depending on the status of the occupation of each member of a couple and their respective professional positions. Lastly, statistical analysis allowed us to identify characteristics of the middle swathe and situate the studied households in the working-class space. The ethnographic aspect comes from the household case studies, which were designed to gather data on the economic, residential, familial, political, and professional dimensions composing working-class lifestyles. The resulting corpus makes it possible to identify consistencies in the lifestyle of middle-working-class people relative to other fractions, as well as certain principles of internal variation in social stabilisation processes, gender relations in the home, and forms of ‘Us’ / ‘Them’ relations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE