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La dynamique vocationnelle chez l'adolescent de collège : continuité et ruptures

This work is a longitudinal study of preadolescent and adolescent pupils scholastic and vocational preferences and career options. The affective and motivational mechanisms and the cognitive processes of this evolution were studied in real time, using a clinical method of interviewes repeated each year for each subject of the sample population. A model was developped, both as pattern for the interviewes and decoding system for utterances. The vocational development is a progressive «mise en tension» between self assessment, professional representations and the self. Once identified the connections, they undergo content analysis. The vocational development is essentially affective and cognitive decentration. Vocational thought ranges from the syncretic to the operatory, from magic to probabilistic thought, from identification to objectivation. Various processes such as sublimating desire or rationalising mourning lead subject to the project within a time perspective that is consistant and signposted and through the insertion in scholastic ans social reality. Career orientation is considered here as a fondamental aspect of the adolescent’s socialization.

La recomposition des activités industrielles maritimes provençales - ruptures, filiations et fécondations

If we compare, on one hand, the old Provencal shipbuilding and ship repairing industrial complexes which are condemned or declining today and, on the other hand, the new oceanic robotics activities expanding in the same area, we can notice radical differences concerning productive rationality as well as territorial organization. In spite of these differences, an historical analysis makes it possible to find out the relationship established between the old and the new Provencal maritime industries : these relationships are not filiation from the old to the new but rather selective fertilization of the old by the new. Historical analysis also allows to discern the conditions of such a selective fertilization : these conditions lie on the interaction of the social actors, the professional cultures and representations they have developed in relation with the productive structures and rationalities of the various involved firms.