Mentoring to break the impasse? Ambiguities of a job accessibility program

Le parrainage pour sortir de l’impasse ? Ambiguïtés autour d’un dispositif favorisant l’accès à l’emploi

Damien Collard (damien.collard@univ-fcomte.fr) and Jean-Baptiste Suquet (jean-baptiste.suquet@neoma-bs.fr)
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Damien Collard: CREGO - Centre de Recherche en Gestion des Organisations (EA 7317) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UB - Université de Bourgogne - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] - UFC - Université de Franche-Comté - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE]
Jean-Baptiste Suquet: NEOMA - Neoma Business School

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Abstract: This article studies the ambiguities of an innovative mentoring program seeking to improve access to jobs for young working-class graduates. On the one hand, the program has an emancipatory impact, insofar as it intends to "fix" the "social elevator" in order to reestablish an equality of opportunities, in line with the French republican myth. On the other hand, the normalizing and adaptative aims of these actions go strongly against this emancipatory purpose. But what does the mentoring program and its corresponding practices entail? We characterize and analyze them from a critical perspective, using Michel Foucault's "technologies of the self" and Jacques Lacan's "Imaginary".

Keywords: Mentoring; Young graduates; Technologies of the self; Imaginary; Parrainage; Jeunes diplômés; Techniques de soi; Imaginaire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in Nouvelle revue de psychosociologie, 2019, Faire société autrement ?, 28 (2), pp.85-95. ⟨10.3917/nrp.028.0085⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/nrp.028.0085

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