En Europe, le lien entre structure professionnelle et hiérarchies de scolarité et de revenu diffère d’un pays à l’autre. La comparaison met en évidence l’existence de trois modèles : les pays les moins avancés d’Europe sont aussi les plus inégaux, marqués qu’ils sont par un...

The article examines how the labour market value of education has changed in the context of the expansion of higher education. However, one drawback is to understand how it generates differences between high and low skilled labour markets, particularly in contexts of high inequality and...

For the last fifty years, the American system of social stratification has known a great turn: after the equalisation and social interventionism of the prosperity 1950-1970, a reversion appears. Since 1970, a superclass has been concentrating the outcome of the growth, the middle class is...

The French society have faced thirty years of economic stagnation and of new intercohort socioeconomic inequalities that are challenging the young generations that experience a strong backlash in the dynamics of social upward mobility that characterized the previous period. After their entry on...

For many sociologists, the death of class is an obvious process: the question of classes has almost disappeared from contemporary social sciences for the last two decades, particularly in France. The aim of this paper is reassess the empirical aspects of this problem. Two different periods...