Far from dealing solely with careers and training in the school environment, career guidance is increasingly having to deal with the renewal of traditional issues, as well as with the emergence of questions about gendered inequalities , the self-censorship of students from working-class backgrounds, and educational and professional inclusion.

Finally available in French, Annette Lareau's book Unequal Childhood is a major work in the American social sciences, situated at the intersection of the sociology of the family, childhood, education and social stratification. Original both in its method and its approach, it reveals the various mechanisms by which social inequalities are formed.

This book offers a socio-history of the silent revolution that took place between 1945 and 1968 in professional practices in the physical sciences. How did physicists and chemists, most of whom considered themselves to be scholars, became researchers?