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Social Networks and Union Membership: The Case of the Confédération française démocratique du travail (CFDT)
Bruno Duriez, Frédéric Sawicki
This paper is based on results from a questionnaire sent to a sample of members of the French trade-union CFDT (Conféderation française et démocratique du travail, Nord-Pas-de-Calais branch). The survey was completed by a series of interviews about the logic of trade-union membership. It distinctly shows the importance of people-networking for any decision-making process on becoming a member. As one of various types of relationship, obviously work-connections do matter more than other connections, as with the voluntary sector, political parties or, to a lesser extent, family surroundings. This change is partly due to the way CFDT recruits its members. Since they gather persons who have few strong links - or at least few multiplex ones - with each other, trade-unions seem to have difficulties in being able to develop their own sociability. More than ever faith in the institution relies on activists' and local representatives' capacity to keep a relationship among members to a minimum.

La représentation sociale de l'élite dans les classifications socioprofessionnelles britanniques.
Bruno Duriez, Jacques Ion. [104-116].
Cet article tente de préciser quelles images de l'élite sont transmises à travers les classifications socioprofessionnelles britanniques. Il montre comment les taxinomies en usage au Royaume-Uni, bien que diverses et nombreuses, s'accordent pour dessiner une représentation clairement hiérarchisée de la structure sociale, mettant en évidence une élite restreinte et relativement close, définie le plus souvent à partir de la figure traditionnelle du professional plutôt que du manager.

M. Chauvière et B. Duriez
Intermediate social categories and non-professional unionism
The new educated middle classes have caught social observers' attention particularly on the local scene, through their participation in local social movements and associative life. As a result this behaviour and these classes have been linked together. This prevents aus from asking correlative questions : do all these educated middle classes exhibit the same behaviour, and do not other classes show the same practices ? The authors answer the second question : their data on three associations show that lower classes, at the fringe of the working class, may also be active leaders in local social movements. These observations raise questions about theories of the new middle class. However, these leaders come from a catholic background and they are involved in a slow process of climbing up the social scale through three generations.