English
This article analyses “discreet” professional mobility within stabilised fractions of the popular classes, using a novel and collective means, namely household monographs. The proposed approach reveals a “household” logic that throws light on these professional mobilities. In taking into account the articulation between four dimensions – financial, residential, educational and professional – which are potential constituents of forms of popular respectability, the approach proves to be heuristic for analysing the contrasting effects of this “household” logic.
