"Family tiMes": une enquête représentative de deux cohortes (1950-55 et 1970-75) de femmes et d'hommes vivant en Suisse en 2011.

Advanced modernity in Europe is characterized by both looser community ties than in the past and greater flexibility of social integration. This results in a gradual diversification of individual family and professional trajectories and the social configurations in which they take place. Recent conceptual and methodological advances offer new possibilities for longitudinal analysis of life courses and social networks. These advances help to better understand the cumulative dynamics of the relationships between events and individual trajectory structures in a complex social positioning space, since the latter is approached in an intersectional perspective that takes into account social class and gender effects. It also makes it possible to measure the link between these trajectories and the representations that individuals make of themselves in such a context. The historical and political dimension of the modernization process makes sense in the light of comparisons between different cohorts and countries. Based on a sample of 800 people representative for French, German and Italian-speaking Switzerland - associated with identical collectives interviewed for the same purpose in Portugal and Finland - this project intends to reveal the mechanisms that underlie the production of identities and social positioning over time, depending on gender and cultural and social capital available in specific institutional and historical contexts.