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À partir de l’étude de deux cas, cet article interroge la place qui est accordée aux équipes d’animation — et donc à l’animation proposée — aujourd’hui dans les établissements pour personnes âgées. Dans le cadre d’une analyse organisationnelle, il montre comment l’animation (ou les équipes d’animation) n’existe ainsi pas in abstracto, mais est prise dans un système d’action, et qu’elle ne peut être comprise qu’au regard de celui dans lequel l’ensemble des acteurs de ces institutions prend place. Il montre, en creux, comment ces institutions informent ou façonnent les territoires de vie des résident-e-s.Stemming from a double case study, this article looks at the place allocated to social workers (“animators”) and to sociocultural activities in nursing homes. Organizational analysis shows that these activities and the “animators” who organize them are part of a “system of actions.” Therefore, sociocultural work in nursing homes cannot be understood by solely studying its internal logic. Other institutional actors and actions constituting the system must be taken into account. In parallel, this study shows how institutions contribute to shaping elderly people’s life territories

This article explores the impact of experiences police officers went through before they joined the Force on how they see and perform their job. I propose a new approach to police culture and practices based on a Bourdieu-inspired model of analysis, which includes its subsequent development by Lahire’s ‘dispositional analysis’. The model looks at how dispositions interiorized—particularly through the experience of social mobility and gender socialization—have a great impact on how police officers see and perform their job. The results suggest that divisions within police culture, long acknowledged by criminologists and sociologists, can be explained by the prior socialization of police officers.

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