S'appuyant sur plusieurs dizaines d'entretiens et près de 3000 questionnaires, les auteurs dressent un portrait totalement inédit de la profession qui rompt avec son apparente homogénéité. Ils révèlent l'existence d'un espace infirmier fortement différencié et hiérarchisé, dans lequel les différents points de vue professionnels sont étroitement liés aux positions occupées. À l'heure où la profession se trouve confrontée à des enjeux majeurs (pénurie de personnel, vieillissement de la population, rationalisation des soins, académisation des formations et développement de la recherche), ce livre constitue un outil de compréhension précieux pour tous les professionnels de santé et les étudiants. En mobilisant la théorie des champs de Pierre Bourdieu, il contribue plus largement au renouvellement de l'analyse sociologique des professions.
This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political trajectories. The approach presented in this book is now central to the life-course perspective and the study of social processes more generally.This volume promotes the dialogue between approaches to sequence analysis that developed separately, within traditions contrasted in space and disciplines. It includes the latest developments in sequential concepts, coding, atypical datasets and time patterns, optimal matching and alternative algorithms, survey optimization, and visualization.Field studies include original sequential material related to parenting in 19th-century Belgium, higher education and work in Finland and Italy, family formation before and after German reunification, French Jews persecuted in occupied France, long-term trends in electoral participation, and regime democratization.Overall the book reassesses the classical uses of sequences and it promotes new ways of collecting, formatting, representing and processing them. The introduction provides basic sequential concepts and tools, as well as a history of the method. Chapters are presented in a way that is both accessible to the beginner and informative to the expert.