Le changement perpétuel au cœur des rapports de domination

• Main Author: Jean-Luc Metzger
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2012-05-01
• Series: Sociologies
• Subjects: change; domination; management; globalization; work
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/3942

Contemporary societies are experiencing growing inequalities in wealth and access to power. The process of “managerialism”, by its increasing influence, plays a particularly important role in updating the relations of domination. It is, indeed, located at the joint between the major policy decisions and changes in social spheres. But this process acts also by the constant renewal of its various components: proceeding by successive experiments, it ensures the perpetuation of relations of domination, at the heart of economic and professional spheres. To show the relevance of this approach, the paper develops, following the achievements of the sociology of work, a model to analyze the managerial will of change. Applying this model to a wide range of advanced professional contexts, we point out and explain the effects of social polarization generated by this will.