Social networks and cultural practices

What connection can be established between the cultural repertoires and practices of young users of screens and their systems of relationships? In this article, we discuss several approaches to the analysis of cultural construction of sociability, with a particular focus on the personal networks of middle-class students. We posit that the interactions between the type of cultural practice and the form of social network establish socially differentiated, decisive points of anchorage in the “use trajectories” [Proulx, S., 2002. Trajectoires d'usages des technologies de communication: les formes d'appropriation d'une culture numérique comme enjeu d'une société du savoir. Annales des télécommunications, Usages émergents des TIC 57 (mars/avril (3-4)), 180-189] of a vast and varied set of cultural productions and communication tools. By applying certain methodologies of the sociology of social networks to the sociology of cultural practices, we construct descriptive tools enabling us to explore the relational dimension of cultural and recreational activities.