L’identification et l’impact de différents types de réseaux sociaux dans les trajectoires de vie de personnes assistées sociales
This thesis examines the role of social networks in life trajectories of individuals living on social security benefits in Quebec. The precarious living conditions of these individuals can be situated in social relations from which discrimination and stigmatization arise. Analysis of social networks can allow us to discover certain dynamics, particularly with regard to their qualitative and temporal character.  Life story narratives were used in order to identify certain social networks in discourse and in elaborating a qualitative analysis model of social networks within a life trajectory perspective. This step allowed to identify a link between certain important narrative events and transformation of relations. Also revealed in discourse were quality indicators of contacts in relation to either a “positive”, “negative” or “neutral” contribution in the trajectory.  The comparison of trajectories of the individuals selected allowed to identify similar network morphologies and to produce a typology. The different categories are identified in function of three dominant categories of contacts evoked by participants: family, knowledge and organisms. The mention of social security, psychiatric contact or even the respondent’s lapse into silence concerning one of the categories allowed to nuance the typology and to identify eleven types of networks. In order to assess the pertinence of this analytical model, an exploratory demonstration of the typology was effectuated.
Itinérance Social Networks Qualitative Analysis Trajectory Social Security Homelessness Social Relations Social Inequality