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English translation: question/lead to questions

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French term or phrase:	interroger (les représentations profanes de l’espace social)
English translation:	question/lead to questions
Entered by:	Héloïse King

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10:12 Aug 22, 2008

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French term or phrase: interroger (les représentations profanes de l’espace social)

"Ces questionnements [about the ESEC classification] sont d’abords liés aux termes ou concepts issus du monde anglo-saxon et dont la tradition française de nomination des professions est peu familière :« manager », « professional », « routines occupation » et plus généralement les termes de langages renvoyant au prestige et/ ou à la hiérarchie sociale des métiers (supérieur, inférieur). Mais ces différences de terminologie et de représentation cognitive des professions renvoient aussi à des différences de logiques classificatoires qui ***interrogent*** les représentations profanes de l’espace social."

From a text about various systems for classifying occupations and socio-economic categories. Here it is talking about ESeC, a draft European Socio-Economic Classification, drafted in English, that apparently does not exactly fit with French ideas and expectations.

Long explanation (sorry), short question: what does 'interroger' mean here? I can't seem to make it make sense...

Thanks for any suggestions!

Héloïse King KudoZ activity Questions: 98 (none open) (3 closed without grading) Answers: 29
Local time: 22:44

question/lead to questions

Explanation:
Could this not simply be the idea of "question" ? Is there anything after the sentence that could clarify?

Selected response from:

Juliette Scott
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:44

Grading comment

'Lead to questions' seems to work well. Many thanks - and to other for their help too!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +2

question/lead to questions

Juliette Scott

raise doubts about

lachacel

probe

cfraser

bring into question/focus

Euqinimod

are related to/concern

mimi 254

related to

Beatriz Ramírez de Haro

Answers

6 mins confidence:

related to

Explanation:
"qui se rapportent aux representations profanes etc."

Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Spain
Local time: 23:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish

16 mins confidence:

are related to/concern

Explanation:
suggestion

mimi 254
Local time: 22:44
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 7

24 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

question/lead to questions

Explanation:
Could this not simply be the idea of "question" ? Is there anything after the sentence that could clarify?

Juliette Scott
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:44
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

'Lead to questions' seems to work well. Many thanks - and to other for their help too!

2 hrs confidence:

bring into question/focus

Explanation:
Une idée.

Euqinimod
Local time: 23:44
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 11

4 hrs confidence:

probe

Explanation:
This is yet another option to consider...
the word "probe" is perhaps a more nuanced term that would be appropriate to the context of the text discussing the differences in logic behind "lay representations", perceptions of social hierarchies in the "social space", etc

cfraser
Canada
Local time: 17:44
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

14 hrs confidence:

raise doubts about

Explanation:
I think here "interroger" has the sense of "mettre en question" and that would be in English "to raise doubts"

lachacel
Local time: 15:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 2

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