Faire de la recherche en pratiquant la conservation-restauration : porosité, concurrence et articulation des activités savantes et consultantes

Hénaut, Léonie; Dubois, Brianne; Lévy, Justine

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“…It may also be useful to examine how polyoccupationalists manage these tensions on a daily basis. Qualitative studies usually distinguish workers who segment their multiple occupations from those who strive to create an integrated view of their work (Caza et al 2018; Hénaut, Dubois, and Lévy 2023; Rowe 2019), yet more research is needed to understand how these strategies are distributed in the workforce. Future scholarship might thus examine whether status-stretching polyoccupationalists seek to incorporate their multiple identities under a single, high-status one to enjoy the full benefits attached to it, or if expertise-stretching, elite workers tend to maintain firm boundaries between their multiple identities to emphasize the diversity of their expertise.…”

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Polyoccupationalism: Expertise Stretch and Status Stretch in the Postindustrial Era

Hénaut,

Lena,

Accominotti

2023

Am Sociol Rev

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Past research has posited that occupations are distinct and exclusive communities of workers and used single-entry questions in surveys to measure occupational self-identification. Our study challenges that view by reporting the existence of polyoccupationalism, or workers’ simultaneous identification with multiple occupations. We predict this phenomenon co-occurs with postindustrial forms of work organization and that its expression varies with workers’ position in the occupational structure. Using a survey on creative workers that uniquely allowed respondents to identify with multiple occupations, we find individuals report higher levels of polyoccupationalism when their work is more contract- and project-based, net of other individual and occupational attributes. We further show that polyoccupationalism takes different forms at the top and the bottom of the occupational hierarchy: whereas the polyoccupationalism of high-status “entrepreneurs” stretches expertise—they identify with occupations that are similar in status but functionally distinct—that of lower-status “hustlers” stretches status—the occupations they report involve similar tasks but stand farther apart on the occupational status scale. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding workers’ occupational identities and the dynamics of occupational hierarchies.

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