La conciliation études-travail chez les jeunes Québécois : travailler pour étudier, étudier pour travailler ou concilier pour étudier?
This thesis aims to suggest different reflections on the propensity of Quebecois students to have a paid job while completing their university studies. Recent statistics show that Quebecois students are more likely to take on this dual role than students in the rest of Canada, and that they also tend to devote more hours to it. Why? To answer this question, the conciliation of studying and working will be considered beyond the number of hours that can be devoted to them and will focus on highlighting the constitutive dispositions of this phenomenon, thus making it possible to display the importance or the value of any of its activities. To do this, we must examine five elements that are likely to influence these dispositions: age, gender, social origin, the constraints of the curriculum and the responsibilities taken by students. In this survey, the notion of "disposition" as developed by Bourdieu will be solicited in order to translate practical knowledge (mainly resulting from semi- directive interviews) into theoretical knowledge. For Bourdieu, the notion of "disposition" corresponds to "attitudes, inclinations to be perceived, felt and thought, internalized by individuals because of their objective conditions of existence and which then function as unconscious principles of action, perception and of reflection "(Bourdieu, 1980, p.88-89). The analysis is mainly based on a series of comprehensive interviews conducted using the latest work by Elsa Ramos as reference. The students targeted for this project come from differentiated programs and hold a position that is not related to their field of study. The qualities of this sample provide a relatively diverse portrait of the student population. The dispositions that emerge from the interviews highlight the (expressive / instrumental) values that enable us to explain the phenomenon of school-work conciliation amongst young Quebecers through a sociological lens.
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