Le rapport des jeunes français à la laïcité dans un monde globalisé

Abstract

Various opinion surveys published since 2020 have shown that, when it comes to secularism, young French people are much more liberal than their elders. The authors of this article ask to what extent this divide is linked to globalization, a process that particularly concerns millennials, and which is sometimes perceived as weakening the transmission of national values. By constructing and analyzing a survey that, in an unprecedented way, crosses the level of integration into globalization and the relationship to secularism of 18–30 year-olds, they show that the two variables interact, but that globalization both widens and closes generational gaps in secularism.