In this research we study the impact of anchoring modalities of social representations of work for two groups of French employees supposed to have a different social status in work. On the one side we can see the group "cadre" is particularly oriented by the pragmatic aspects of professional activity, on the other side, the representation of "work" for the group "employés" is oriented by economical and social principles. The results show an opposition between normative dimensions organizing the social representations of one group and a functional dimension structuring the representation of the other group, emphasizing the asymmetrical relation between groups. It shows that the differences of representations are based on a processes group and therefore they have and show different degrees of involvement in job. This difference between groups based on the qualitative composition of central nucleus of social representations of work leads to differences in involvement on work.
Social representations; structural analyses; asymmetric relations; normative and functional dimensions
