Abstract
The authors' study focuses on the links between social origins, educational attainment and social destinations in France. They use data from the four latest surveys on Education and Qualifications (Enquetes sur la Formation et la Qualification Professionnelle) for 1970, 1977, 1985 and 1993. Their main findings are the following : the inequalities in social destinations among persons with identical educational attainments but of different social backgrounds are as wide as inequalities in the school system. In France, social inequalities widen in the course of the working career. Social origin is an asset at the start of a career but even more so during a career. The pattern of social mobility has remained virtually unchanged for the past half-century. Their data allow us to propose some explicit tests of the meritocratic model which is implicit in Bourdieu's works and of the non meritocratic model put forward by R. Boudon. The rejection of both models leads us to offer two alternative theoretical models compatible with the observed data
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