Identification and Research of Impacts of Social Categorization Process in Nurse Triage (SOCIAL SORTING)

Social Sorting is a: non interventional, observational, qualitative and multicenter research. It investigates three French emergency units in three French centers (UH of Angers, H of Le Mans, H of Laval). It is a research based on nursing sciences and social-psychology and it proposes to study the process of social categorization that intervenes during triage nursing. The process of social categorization has developped since the beginning of XX century (LIPPMANN, in 1922, in United States, he gave the first definition of stereotype// DURKHEIM, in France described step by step the individuals and the collectives representations. During XX century the social psychology developed a lot of studs about group dynamics (social categorization, influence phenomenon, conspiracy theories,...) within several domains : industry, politics, public services as police, social units,... and also in healthcare (but always about a social categorisation in particular and often with a limited study of impacts). Social Sorting includes all social categorization as possible and search to do a scientific evaluation of their impact.