Les temps sociaux de la participation : (in)dispositions et (in)disponibilités démocratiques
(2019) Congrès de l’Association Française de Sociologie, 2019 — Location: Aix-en-Provence (27.August.2019)
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- (en) How one can find time to participate ? Given a granted opportunity for engagement in local democratic life, who is in position to seize it? Here we propose to analyze the forms of conciliation used by individuals who engage themselves in different participatory devices, and more broadly in local associative and political life. We show how the observed variations can be seen as extending in the civic sphere social inequalities from the professional and family spheres. Participation is primarily intermittent and its stages are linked to life paths. What has triggered participation is often perceived in relation with a residential, family and professional stability, which is seen as a requirement for engagement. If biographical availability determines the willingness to participate, individuals engage in a conciliation process, that a simple cost-benefit calculation cannot fully reflect. Moreover according to the social group of the individual, the same event is differently mobilized as an explanation of the possibility or impossibility of committing. It can alternatively justify a higher investment or a withdrawal. This result underlies the fact that participatory engagement has a social logic: one participates as one sociologically is. At the end of the day, it explains the unequally distributed capacity of individuals to articulate social commitments, in addition to professional and familial ones. Social times are located in social space.
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Petit, G. (2019). Les temps sociaux de la participation : (in)dispositions et (in)disponibilités démocratiques. Congrès de l’Association Française de Sociologie, 2019, Aix-en-Provence. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/222681