Reso Comme Outil De Structuration Des Categories Socioprofessionnelles

Abstract

Reso as a Tool for Structuring Social-Professional Categories: For purposes of readability ande comparison, how can one reduce the social mobility tables that are as detailed as those of the 1985 French FQP survey, and, at the same time, not sacrifice the nomenclature but show the continuity/discontinuity between categoris? Contrary to work in “stratification” which perceives the nomenclature as a hierarchy and qualifies mobility as “ascending”, we model each table in the form of a graph and reveal the social-professional categories as typologies with the software Réso which uses strong connectedness to characterize the impossibility of constructing an induced order of mobility on the 32 categories. Réso constructs proximities between categories by Finding and following lines of flow and fracture in a center(s)/periphery(ies) model with points of flexion and points of weakness. These proximities vary from one table to another and cannot be expressed in terms of “stratification”. Social Mobility, Social Professional Categories, Stratification, Graphes, Strongely Connected Components.