Contenu du sommaire : Sous le prisme de l'articulation des temporalités sociales

The articulation of social times is approached above all by the notion of “work-family conciliation”, sometimes reducing the stakes to optimizable individual strategies. Conversely, this article proposes to approach the question from a macrosocial perspective, in order to grasp social temporalities in their complexity by using a mirror reading of the temporalities of salaried work, and to analyze their articulation with experience outside employment. Based on a geometric analysis of the data from the “Let's Talk about Work” survey, we present how, depending on the temporal room of maneuver and the hourly intensity, the configurations of relationship vary and how they influence the experience outside employment; in particular by playing a role in the health of workers, thus showing that this is not entirely an “individual conflict” but a social problem, from which arise not only gender and class inequalities, but also consequences that have hitherto been more invisible and which transform living conditions in the private sphere.

While the organizational, temporal and subjective tensions experienced by women in relation to work-family relationship are well known, those experienced by men have been less studied. The aim of this article is to explore under what conditions work is experienced by fathers as an obstacle to parenting time. Based on a qualitative survey of 34 working fathers in heterosexual couples with at least one child under the age of three, the aim is to highlight the subjective relationship of these men to the work-family interface, using a ‘magnifying glass' : working schedules. In this article, it is shown that “father-child parenting time”, as far as daily tasks are concerned, is seen by men less as a parental imperative than as a conjugal service.

This article examines time schedule's standards in scientific preparatory classes, and for entry to an engineering school. The data were collected during a four-year ethnographic survey of the École Centrale Paris (ECP) student community. While students' activities change between the preparatory classes and the engineering school, some time norms persist: in both cases, they are asked to make a rational, intensive and controlled use of their time, assigning it to specific activities. What changes is the form this takes. In the preparatory class, students are enjoined to devote their time to school; in the engineering school there are injunctions to engage, in addition to school activities, in the associative activities of the school.

In this article, the author focuses on trades that make up the worlds of art but which have so far been little studied: entertainment technicians. He retraces the development of two careers, that of a “reception technician” and that of a “performance company technician”, to examine the plurality of forms of involvement in technical work and their springs. To this end, it compares the conditions of entry and retention - or navigation - between the different technical professional sectors in French-speaking Switzerland, and analyses the tension between “art and profession” which structures this professional field. Through the study of the articulations of differentiated social times among technicians, this comparison shows that the disinterested “self-sacrifice” specific to artistic vocations does not allow us to characterize all technical careers.

In Quebec, the context of the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted to radical transformations in the organization of work. From a rate of about 15% of organizations offering telework, the number of teleworkers has risen to 40% by May 2020. How have parents experienced their working time-family life conciliation in this province where family policy promotes women's activity? How have employers behaved towards their employees in a teleworking situation? Does the organizational support offered, in terms of reducing the employer's expectations and level of understanding, differ according to gender, type of organization and job category? In order to answer these questions, we analyze data from a survey conducted in May 2020 among 2,293 Quebec workers who have children.

From March to June 2020, from the beginning of the lockdown to the first steps in easing lockdown, a collective of sociologists followed eighteen French families during regular tele-interviews, in order to understand the experiences of this unprecedented situation and the way in which these families reorganized their activities while they were taking place in a single space: the place of residence. The authors distinguish three relationships to lockdown (happy, unhappy and mixed feeling), and observe that although material conditions of existence play a determining role in the experience of lockdown, they are not sufficient on their own to explain the different positions. The gendered distribution of tasks, autonomy in the organization of professional activity and, more generally, the degree of control over the use of time are structuring dimensions of this experience, as is the place given to family life in the life plans of individuals and couples.
The authors distinguish three relationships to confinement (happy, unhappy and mixed), and observe that although material living conditions play a decisive role in the experience of confinement, they are not sufficient on their own to explain its general tone.