Les épreuves de l’insertion des jeunes. Les limites de l’idée « adéquationniste »

Abstract

The massification of the French educational system since the early 1960’s was supported by the conviction, profoundly anchored in the egalitarian, meritocratic and corporatist traditions of the Republic, that each diploma warrants a corresponding professional status. If this “adequationist” conviction has been relevant to a certain degree during the period of economic growth and expansion of employment, it has now become, in a period of crisis, a source of exclusion (of those who do not possess a diploma), of fierce competition, and of widening unequalities.