Thèse de doctorat en Sociologie
Sous la direction de Jean-Claude Chamboredon.
Soutenue en 1993
à Paris, EHESS .
La desinsertion politique et sociale concerne des individus, mal integres a la communaute nationale. Ce sont des membres de groupes sociaux mal inseres dans la collectivite socio-politique. L'etat en france agit en leur faveur pas des mecanismes d'assistance. Depuis, 1945 les personnes agees sont dans cette situation. Elles sont mal integrees a la communaute nationale car elles sont hors du systeme de production et a part dans celui de la consommation. Leur participation politique limitee a une participation electorale tres intense est pour elles un moyen de maintenir leur appartenance a la communaute des citoyens. Les modifications ducomportement politique et social dans la vieillesse doivent etre envisagees comme desocialisation, car elles impliquent une reconstruction de leur identite.
Political and social desinsertion : process of desocialization in the old age
Political and social desinsertion concerns individuals that are not integrat into the national community. They are members of groups that are not well inserted into the whole social-political community, state in france supports them through assistance's mechanisms - since 1945 the old people have been in such a position, because they are disconnected with the production systeme and se gregated in the activities of consumption - their political participation, that is very important and is for them a way to stay as citizns in the national community. The modifications of political and social behavior in the elderness should be seen as a process of desocialization, because - at that moment of their biographical trajectories the individuals have to build again their social identity.