Métropoles (May 2012)
Accéder à la maison individuelle en zone périurbaine : passé résidentiel, position dans le cycle de vie et sphères d’identification
Abstract
Suburban areas are privileged by the "young couples with children" from the urban poles which, while continuing to work in town, wish to be first-time buyer of a detached house. By taking into account of the residential socialization, structured by norms, representations which show the field of the possibilities in residential sphere in a given socio-historic context, positions had in the conjugal, family and professional trajectories when they arrive, the aim of this paper is to show the stake, in terms of expected social identity, the suburban residential choice which come up in varied family configurations where the husband and wife invest differently in the varied spheres of activity. The expectations in terms of residential identity which depend on identities expected and received in the other spheres vary, according to the social position, according to the career evolution, according to the gender. When the professional identities do not coincide with the expected identities, when the chances to reach an adjustment are slight, the investment in the residential sphere is significant.
