No. 25 (2018): Dispositions at work. The social origin of professional practices

Coordinated by David Pichonnaz and Kevin Toffel.

This issue of Émulations aims to reconnect with general sociology while focusing on a central issue in the sociology of professions and employment: the study of the representations of work and professional practices. Based on a dispositional analysis, it proposes an account of these representations and practices thanks to a study of workers’ trajectories. The contributions in this issue take an interest in the way dispositions acquired outside of the work sphere help shape careers, work representations as well as professional practices, and show the importance of connecting work studies to the social stance of the agents. Exploring diverse contexts of socialization, these articles assert that the analysis of earlier socialization offers much to work studies by contributing to the renewal of sociology of professions approaches.