Entre standardisation, individualisation et sexuation: une analyse des trajectoires personnelles en Suisse.

This article aims at exploring the adcquacy of theses about standardisation, individualisaiton and gendering of life courses in order to understand the personal trajectories of individuals living in couples in Switzerland. Using the sample of the sociological study of the project network Family Life in Switzerland of the program Switzerland: Towards the Future, a series of multivatiate an and optimal matching analyses show that a great majority of the male trajectories correspond to a single, highly standardised type of trajectory, whereas the female trzjectorics fall into four distinct, well-caractetised models of similar importance. Current hypotheses about standardisation, individualisation and gendering are in insufficient to account for the varations we have found. We offer a complementary hypothesis about the influence of profiles of social participation and of sex-specific master-statuses.