Marie-Clémence Le Pape is associate professor at the University Lumière, a public establishment with a dual role of education and research into public health and social welfare. She has got a PHD in sociology. Her fields of research are: family, filiation and transmission issues; educational issues and social stratification; family and health.

Recent publications:

• Le Pape M.-C. avec van Zanten A, (2009), « Educational practises of families », in Duru-Bellat M., van Zanten A. (dir.), Sociologie du système éducatif. Les inégalités scolaires, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, collection L, p.185-205.
• Le Pape M.-C. (2009), « Being a parent in a working class environment : between traditional values and new educational norms », Informations Sociales, n° 154 « Le travail parental : représentations et pratiques », p. 88-95.
• Le Pape M.-C. avec Jonas N, (2008), « My own relatives or my partner’s relatives ? A configurational approach of kinship prioritization » in Widmer E. (dir.), Beyond « the » nuclear family: family as webs of relationships, Peter Lang Edition, Bern, p. 157-178.