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The construction of discourse about vocation in relation to belief systems operates principally through three registers of socialization: biographical trajectory, training, and work organizations. These three levels are intertwined and generate various forms of justification and of anchoring of vocational discourse. Commitment to the profession is strong when there is convergence between the biographical, professional, and organizational relays. At the current time there are signs that the sources of modes of implication are in the process of being reconfigured. Many vocational discourses are now no longer linked to biography or to key personalities. Action is no longer justified in reference to political, organizational, or social benchmarks.