"Cinq majeur" ou "partenaire d'entraînement" ? : sociologie des carrières des basketteuses de l'élite

"Starting five" or "sparring-partner"? : the sociology of female elite basketball players' careers

• Auteur / Autrice : Anaïs Déas
• Direction : Williams Nuytens, Didier Demazière
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Sciences du sport (staps)
• Date : Soutenance le 06/12/2017
• Etablissement(s) : Artois
• Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : École doctorale Sciences économiques, sociales, de l'aménagement et du management (Villeneuve d'Ascq)
• Jury : Président / Présidente : Oumaya Hidri Neys
• Jury : Examinateurs / Examinatrices : Williams Nuytens, Didier Demazière, Oumaya Hidri Neys, Sébastien Fleuriel, Bastien Soulé, Sabine Chavinier-Réla
• Jury : Rapporteurs / Rapporteuses : Sébastien Fleuriel, Bastien Soulé

Mots clés

Mots clés contrôlés

Orientation professionnelle

Sportifs de haut niveau

France

Basket-ball féminin

Mots clés libres

Sociologie

Basket féminin

Carrières

Haut-niveau

Travail

Sociology

Female basketball

Careers

High-level

Work

Résumé

Ce travail de thèse s’intéresse à la structuration et à la dynamique d’un marché de sportives professionnelles : précisément celui qu’animent les basketteuses en France. Il s’agit d’approcher la régulation de ce marché par le prisme d’un de ces acteurs (les joueuses), de comprendre comment elles « se placent », et en quoi les ressources mobilisées pour s’installer dans le métier et construire sa carrière dépassent les limites du terrain sportif.

Considered a paying job by some, a non-contratualized activity by some others, femalebasketball is far from being homogenous. Thus this thesis will try to analyze the careers ofplayers belonging to the highest two national French divisions with a view to enlighten howthese careers get constructed and evolve. This sports world is very competitive, hierarchiallyordered and unsafe, that's why've tried to study its organization and functioning by unvealingthe mechanisms which explain that a player eventually occupies such or such a position. Guidedby the interactionist approach to social phenomena and concerned with career studying by usingan inductive process, we've combined several (quantitativ and qualitativ) field surveys: that'show we've drawn up 3 categories of sportswomen based on the position they occupy at onemoment in their careers : the « stars », the « settled » and the others. Beyond these results we'vealso attempted to question the survey methods, by reporting on our methodology and byadvancing cautiously in the harvesting and analysis of the material produced. Finally this surveydedicated to female elite basketball players has also permitted to draw some elements to start afuture survey devoted to the sports market more serenely : our attention will be drawn to otherpeople than female basketball players such as agents, club managers and coaches.