Facing an important demand of lodging in C.H.R.S. (Centre d’Hébergement et de Réinsertion Sociale, French for Lodging and Social Reinsertion Centre), social workers have to select the public. That research is founded on the functional theory of cognition initiated by Anderson (1981, 1996). It was lead in the French Rhone-Alps region with forty social workers who have interviews for admission in a C.H.R.S. Results show that visible alcohol intoxication on the day of the interview considerably reduces chances of admission in an insertion C.H.R.S. Indeed they suggest that facing a competition between interested people, social workers tend to judge on the basis of stereotypes of the “good poor” and the “bad poor” as Geremek (1987) emphasized.
