L’image et le son comme moyens pour saisir les dimensions mentales du travail domestique : les activités de coordination et de gestion

How to capture domestic work? The Time Use Surveys are a powerful tool for measuring and characterizing domestic production. However, by being based on diaries for activity recording, they record more activities requiring physical effort than those relating to “mental load”. This article proposes to show how image and sound make it possible to overcome this limitation and to access the mental dimensions of domestic work. It is suggested that the use of audiovisual filming, as a complement to other methods of data collection (diaries for activity recording, interview, direct observation), can be a means of enriching analyzes on themes such as domestic work. Also, this article is intended as a contribution to researches on “mental load”.