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L'institution à l'état vif. Sociabilités et structuration des groupes dans un syndicat de salariés

2003; Armand Colin; Volume: 16; Issue: 63 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/polix.2003.1292

1953-8286

Gildas Renou,

Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender

The Flesh of Institution. Sociable Conversations and Organisational Structuration in a Trade Union Gildas Renou This article explores the variety of internai sociabilities and its influence on the structuration process of political organisations. It is based on an ethnographie study of a French trade union of workers: Sud-PTT. First, the main moments of institutionnal sociability are identified and described (especially the times of congresses). Then we present two styles of sociability characterizing these moments : « remotivation » and « political initiation ». These styles help us to correlate the intensities of implication with the various bounds of groups and cultural subuniverses inside the organisation. Finally we defend the interest of direct observation in the study of activist sociability : it seems to be a relevent method to distinguish efficient mechanisms that empirically determine reactivations and adaptations of internai organisational rifts.