Socialisation religieuse, engagement militant et carrières professionnelles

Transfert de dispositions et travail de mise en cohérence biographique

Abstract

This paper examines the consequences of activism on the professional career. Through a dispositional analysis of two individuals’ involvement in catholic organizations, politically and religiously transformed during the 1968’s, the paper focuses on the way they assumed their professional positions after this period of radical political critics. It demonstrates that how they embrace and apprehend their professional positions relies partly on dispositions internalized during their past political involvement. But the professional contexts also shaped in return their dispositions and lead them to revisit their biographical past in a cohesiveness way with their current position – what Pierre Bourdieu calls “biographical illusion”.