La carrière entre perspectives cognitive et comportementale : Une étude des scripts de carrière des magistrats au sein de l'institution judiciaire

The diversification of contemporary careers places mobility, in its now multiple and protean nature, at the very core of our thinking. While the literature largely presents the individual as an actor free to move to build his or her career, this article follows an alternative avenue of research based on the logic of duality. The career and the mobilities that shape it are understood as being jointly built by the individual and the institution. In this perspective, career scripts, placed at the center of the dialectical relationship between individual and institution, constitute a highly fertile conceptual framework. However, it is only partially mobilized in the literature, and is most often deprived of one of its dimensions (behavioral) in favor of its second (cognitive). The ambition of this article is to contribute to the development of a common and shared understanding of the concept of career scripts, by taking the opposite approach to the works mobilizing the concept and focusing particularly on its behavioral dimension. It is based empirically on the case of judiciaries' careers within the judicial institution, and examines the behavioral dimension of judiciaries' career scripts (by highlighting typical mobility paths). This analysis sheds new light on the role of mobility in the study of careers, and underlines the analytical power of the conceptual framework of career scripts in its dual cognitive and behavioral dimensions.