Nicolas Doduik, "L'embarras: les professionnelles des musées aux prises avec la persistance des inégalités culturelles. Le cas du Mucem", Culture & Museumsn°45, 2025, pp.188-194.

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Between institutional renewal and reproduction, museum professionals put to the test of changing cultural practices: the case of the Mucem. Doctoral thesis in sociology, Aix-Marseille University, defended on 2 December 2022, under the supervision of Sylvia Girel.

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Audience professionals embarrassed by the failure of cultural democratisation

• The persistence of cultural inequalities: an embarrassing fact

• The Mucem: a laboratory for contemporary public policies

• An original survey focusing on professionals working in the public sector

Three strategies for managing the contradictions of the profession

• Defusing sociological criticism

• Constructing a typology of audiences that makes cultural inequalities invisible

• Designing one-off and marginal systems

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