Sociologies (Nov 2018)
Se dire normalien.ne
Abstract
Being trained within a French grande école is supposed to produce a source of identification such durable that, several years after the end of their training years, graduated are still labeled by their school name (« énarque », « polytechnicien »…). Nevertheless, the unalterability of this identification among graduates has rarely been tested empirically. By analyzing how this category of graduate of a prestigious elite school is mobilized within a group of graduates of a specific set of institutions (ENS of Fontenay, Saint-Cloud and Lyon), this article aims to show the impact of the socialization within a particular occupational group on the meaning given to some life course events.
