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Despite notable progress in access to higher education in Quebec, there are still limitations for certain social groups. Research among 96 college students provided an opportunity to further understand their views on the relationship with school as well as the academic career of their parents’. Results showed five types of ties upheld by the students’ parents in regard to school (indifferent, utilitarian, lucid, protective and authoritarian), whether these variables present themselves alone or intertwined with each other. Also, most students take a positive regard on the academic career of their parents, which is fairly divided according to the educational attainment of thus of their parents’ and marked by a form of compassion and comprehension. The discussion addresses the persistence of the influence of the family environment on the educational path of young people in CEGEP.

Keywords: cégep, college, jeunes, parents, parents, academic career, rapport aux études, sociology of youth, sociology of education, parcours scolaire, sociologie de la jeunesse, sociologie de l’éducation

Keywords: Asexuality, Asexualité, Réception, Reception, Queer reading, Lecture queer, Quebecois literature, Littérature québécoise, Marie Laberge, Marie Laberge

In Quebec, mental health issues have been at the core of union action over the years. In the early 1980s, the Quebec Federation of Workers established a network of Social Representatives to support union members facing workplace problems. This article demonstrates how the actions of Social Representatives are making Quebec's workplaces sounder and more environmentally friendly. It includes data collected between 2013 and 2019, through eight focus groups (n = 140), and over forty semi-directed individual interviews with Social Representatives having diverse backgrounds. Our results confirm the logic of each one for himself/herself and the competition of co-workers who undermine the conditions of cooperation at work and cause human isolation. In view of the escalating violence (interpersonal and organizational) portrayed by the vast majority of our respondents, the FTQ Social Representatives are trying to limit the mental health damage to the suffering workers. Through their actions that are based on direct mutual help, including active non-professional listening, and on person-centred union activism, the social representatives update the foundations of trade unionism. This is achieved in particular with the ideas of fraternity and solidarity at work and through work, on which the worker movement once relied. They thus go beyond replicating successful formulas from the past: they invent a new way of linking the economic and social conditions for the welfare of the contemporary working community.

Keywords: santé mentale au travail, rationalité au travail, humanisation des milieux de travail, syndicalisme, entraide syndicale

AbstractThe article looks at the role of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in programs targeting aboriginals within federal institutions. It proposes a critical reflection on the role of the effects of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (traditions, practices, rituals, chants, dances, etc.) within rehabilitation programs aimed at aboriginal populations serving sentences at detention centres in Canada. Our goal is to identify and better understand the impact and effectiveness of integrating aboriginal ICH in the rehabilitation process.

Keywords: patrimoine culturel immatériel, Amérindiens, populations aborigènes, régulation sociale, réhabilitation, rituels, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Aboriginal peoples in Canada, First Nations, rehabilitation, rituals, patrimonio cultural inmaterial, Amerindios, poblaciones indígenas, regulación social, rehabilitación, rituales

This article presents different definitions of terms commonly used in educational guidance: position, job, profession, trade, vocation, career, work, occupational guidance, school and vocational information, transition, school-to-work transition, career education, etc. A distinction is made in the meaning of these expressions and words used in ordinary language and in scientific writings by different authors, while taking into account their evolution and places of origin.

Keywords: Recherche qualitative, vécu, humain, conscience, démarche scientifique, analyse

AbstractLélia is a character whose existence, according to George Sand, was « tout à fait impossible… à force de vouloir être abstraite et symbolique », but who nonetheless proved to be a figure with a rich literary destiny. Violently attacked by certain critics, just as ardently admired by enthusiastic female readers, she exerted a great fascination in the cultural sphere of her time. Barbey d'Aurevilly will pay tribute to her in his short story of 1840, « L'amour impossible ». And Balzac will be inspired by her as he creates « the greatest writer of the Comédie humaine », Camille Maupin.