Cet article vise à identifier quelques-uns des écueils analytiques qui surgissent lors de recherches sur les pratiques et aspirations en matière d'articulation des temps de vie au sein d'un groupe professionnel particulier, celui des médecins. Caractérisée par de très longues durées du travail, la profession médicale offre également une grande «souveraineté temporelle». Si l'éthos de la profession médicale a longtemps été fondé sur un principe de «disponibilité permanente», plusieurs facteurs participent à une remise en question de ce socle historique des identités professionnelles, surtout chez les jeunes générations de médecins des deux sexes. Toutefois, ce changement ne s'exprime pas toujours dans les mêmes registres: en situation d'entretien, les femmes évoquent plus spontanément des aspirations «d'équilibre» des temps professionnels et familiaux, alors que les hommes revendiquent la recherche d'un «équilibre» individuel, par le truchement de loisirs personnels. Reste à savoir dans quelle mesure ces différences discursives renvoient effectivement à des pratiques sexuées spécifiques ou traduisent plutôt un mécanisme d'ajustement des récits aux injonctions normatives qui continuent de peser sur l'acceptabilité sociale des pratiques (et aspirations) masculines et féminines en matière d'articulation des temps de vie.

What types of jobs are growing: well-paid managerial jobs or low-paid auxiliary jobs, high-end professional jobs or bottom-end service jobs? Can occupational change transform affluent countries into enlarged middle-class societies? Or, on the contrary, are we heading towards a future of increasingly divided class societies? Do changes in the employment structure allow forthcoming generations to move towards more rewarding jobs than those held by their parents - or is downward mobility the more likely outcome? This book throws new light on these timely questions by drawing on extensive evidence of employment data on the pattern of occupational change in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland since 1990. It documents the change in the employment structure, and examines the five underlying driving forces: technology, globalization, education, migration, and institutions. The book discusses whether governments really have no other choice than either occupational upgrading with soaring unemployment or full employment with expanding low-end jobs. The book gives a clear picture of the future of work, skills, and employment in today's Europe, contributing to the debate in economic sociology and labour economics.

Collection of ancillary functions and utilities to be used in conjunction with the TraMineR package for sequence data exploration. Most of the functions are in test phase, lack systematic consistency check of the arguments and are subject to changes. Once fully checked, some of the functions of this collection could be included in a next release of TraMineR.

Barrie Thorne – who was until recently Professor and Acting Chair of Gender & Women’s Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley – has been active in the collective effort to bring feminism into the US academic world. She has fought relentlessly for over 40 years to promote women and gender studies in higher education. This creative sociologist is also a much appreciated teacher and mentor. Laurence Bachmann interviewed her on campus in February 2012, a few months before she retired.