Actuary training: a sociological analysis.

Summary This text presents some hypotheses and first results of an ongoing survey on the profession of actuary, which focuses on actuarial education. It is not the intention of these pages to propose an exhaustive vision of the whole actuarial world, nor even of the actuarial education world, but more modestly, at the end of the exploratory phase of the survey, to expose some of the tracks that are emerging and to outline some hypotheses, in order to submit them to the discussion. In this sense, it is important not to take this text for anything other than what it claims to be. This is why, on the one hand, the choice has been made to anchor this text in the empirical material collected during the first months of this survey and, on the other hand, the text concentrates, as far as possible, only on the elements relating to the challenges of actuarial education - an organization as central in this world as the Institute of Actuaries therefore only appears in dotted lines, mainly through the relations established with actuarial training, on the occasion of actuarial dissertations for example. Finally, the subject of this text corresponds to that which guides all the research conducted within the framework of the PARI Chair, which focuses in particular on recent transformations in the world of actuarial science, for example, the Solvency 2 reform (François, 2015 . Frezal, 2016). This explains the space devoted to this particular theme in the following pages.