Grandes écoles : ce que nous apprend la formation de la classe dirigeante

Abstract

Les rapports sociaux de classe s’apprennent, y compris pour celles et ceux qui en profitent. Roxane Dejours analyse sous cet angle les sociabilités parascolaires d’étudiant·es qu’elle a suivi·es en classes préparatoires puis en grandes écoles. Elle montre que les fêtes et leurs excès, sciemment tolérés par les institutions, ne servent pas seulement à créer un esprit de corps mais aussi à apprendre les pratiques de sociabilité inhérentes à la condition dirigeante ainsi que les rapports de pouvoir qui les traversent, en particulier sexistes.

Alcohol Use, Anxiety and Depression among French Grandes Écoles Engineering Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…Furthermore, we showed that on-campus students indicated an increase in the importance of their alcohol use, reporting higher scores of perceived problematic use than those who lived off campus. These results are consistent with the literature, which highlights that students are particularly exposed to the risk of developing AUD [ 7 ] and harmful alcohol practices [ 8 , 9 ], particularly among Grandes Écoles students [ 29 ]. Alcohol seemed to remain an important part of student life on campus, even during the pandemic [ 24 ].…”

“…This result can be paralleled with the higher number of participants with student responsibility on campus than off campus. These students, who are more involved in college life, should therefore also be more exposed to parties where heavy drinking is widespread [ 26 , 28 , 29 ]. Similarly, students on campus were younger than students off campus: these students reported drinking more often, larger amounts of alcohol, spending more money on it, having more problems with it, etc.…”

“…These results are in line with previous ones as they can lead to the impression that our population has particularly low levels of psychological distress. However, this engineering French Grandes Écoles population has the particularity of being privileged [ 29 ], which seemed to constitute an important protective factor against psychological distress during the COVID-19 period [ 55 ]. This may explain how our sample seems to be protected from the psychological distress that has affected the student population so much [ 30 , 31 , 32 , 55 ].…”

“…In French Grandes Écoles , heavy alcohol consumption seems to be generalized and largely tolerated, leading to these students being specifically concerned by these problems [ 26 , 27 , 28 ]. Parties and massive alcohol consumption seem to constitute an important part of social inclusion in these institutions and are sometimes considered good practice for the socializing skills these students will need in their future professions [ 29 ].…”

Catégoriser les mondes professionnels à partir des positions dans l’espace scolaire

“…Cette méthode est inspirée de Boltanski et évenot (1983), qui confrontaient les procédures de classi cation ordinaires de l'espace social aux nomenclatures o cielles. Ce protocole a ensuite été actualisé par les chercheurs de l'enquête « Décrire la société » (DLS) (Amossé et Penissat 2019 ;Deauvieau et al 2014 ;Hugrée et Verdalle 2015, 2019Pénissat et Jayet 2009 ;de Verdalle, Deauvieau, et Filhon 2017). De DLS, nous répliquons à l'identique le jeu de cartes, la consigne initiale et le mode de traitement des classements e ectués ; ce qui soutiendra la comparaison et permettra de repérer les spéci cités dans les procédures de classement des jeunes par rapport à des populations adultes déjà insérées dans le monde professionnel.…”