UN RENOUVEAU DE LA PARTICIPATION ASSOCIATIVE ? L'engagement et le militantisme au sein du comité Attac Isère

Document 2: Compared générationnelles structures

Table 3: Générationnelles structures compared with the national population as a whole

Age bracket	20/25 years	25/60 years	+ 60 years	Total (%)
Attac sample	6%	76%	17.9 %	100
Attac Nat	16% (18-30 years)	69% (30-60 years)	15%	100
National population	11% (1)	62%	26,9%	100

1 : In order to be able to differentiate the category 20/25 (which mixes them - of 25 years (A) and them - 20 years (b)) we have to use two distinct sources to recut the two age brackets :

- has : INSEE, France and of the areas, edition 1997, INSEE publication, 1998.

- B : INSEE, social Data 1999, statistical INSEE public, 1999.

The remainder of the data comes exclusively from edition 99 of « Social data ». We withdrew these data information relating to- 20 years. The national population in question thus gets along as exclusively lying between 20 and 60 years and +.

Table 4: Générationnelles structures compared with the working population national

Age bracket	20/25 years	25/40 years	40/50 years	50/60 years	Total
Sample Attac (1)	7.3 %	36,3%	38.2 %	18.2 %	100
Working population national (2)	7%	43%	30,1%	19,8%	100

1 : We withdrew our sample the most 60 years in order to have more coherent data with those of INSEE (cf, note 2). We have thus to recompute the frequencies consequently.

2 : INSEE Results n° 662/663, Series Employment- Returned n°153/July 154, 1999, Employment survey of January 1999 (detailed Results), p. 57. In this nomenclature of the ages of the working population, INSEE includes them + 60 years. However, this category being slightly represented (2,3%), we excluded it in order to obtain a more coherent system of variables. Calculations of proportionalities were carried out consequently.

Source : Marty (Thomas), Sociology of association Attac Toulouse : Social positions with the cognitive standpoint. Sociological study by questionnaire and direct observation, memory for the diploma of the IEP of Toulouse, Tells (Claire) under the responsibility of, 1999/2000, p. 53.

The sociographic approach was made profitable in order to trace the broad outline of the social determinants which qualify the militants. It highlighted that political engagement answers certain structural social logics. In addition, the study of the générationnelles structures made it possible to include/understand the reasons of a homogeneity between militants, within the committee Attac Isere, and the cut with the group « campus ». However, according to Eric Agrikoliansky, such an approach does not make it possible to explain the reasons of this engagement^401(*). It does not speak of anything logics which make it possible to understand that the militant investments rather take place in such organization than in such other. It does not reveal either the factors which would explain why among the individuals dividing of the common characteristics, some engage whereas others remain inactive. The principal limit of the paradigm holist would be the negation of the individual of which it claims to explain the behavior. The individualistic principle thus seems necessary. The comprehension of the collective behaviors necessarily passes by the taking into account of individual engagement. The methodological individualism^402(*), which consists in refuting the autonomy of the organizations, is not equivalent, according to François Chazel, to a psychological reductionnism^403(*). Consequently, it is not incompatible any more with the structural approaches and holists.

In order not to limit itself to the causes and to be able to make understandable the reasons of the militancy, it is necessary to include/understand the individual springs of them. For that, the speech of the militants can be used as starting point. Martine Barthélémy notices that the words used by the militants are « notations symbolic » which has an impact on engagement^404(*). However, it will be necessary to exceed this presentation of oneself to try to see there what it covers.

* ⁴⁰¹ Agrikoliansky (Eric), op.cit.

* ⁴⁰² Methodological individualism, according to Wipper, consists with «  to allot the analytical primacy to the social facts, and the theoretical primacy with the individuals as it take initiatives  ». Wippler, «  Structural-individualistic The approach in dutch sociology  : toward social year exploratory science  », The Netherlands, Newspaper off sociology, n°14, 1978, pp. 135-155. City in «  With what is used methodological individualism  ». Chazel (François), Collective action and social movements

* ⁴⁰³ Chazel (François), «  With what methodological individualism in sociology is used  ?  », Collective action and social movements.

* ⁴⁰⁴ Barthelemy (Martine), op.cit, p. 213.