ABSTRACT
Comparing Durkheim and Bourdieu reveals significant differences in theoretical and empirical choices: while Durkheim’s considerations on formalism are essentially concerned with education, Bourdieu’s concern many other fields. Durkheim sees formalism as some sort of emblematic adversary, inseparably intellectual and moral. For the second, formalism is, well beyond education, to be considered for what it is, a given, a social fact which constitutes a challenge for sociology insofar as it seems to suspend the social determinations whether in the universes of science, literature, art or others.
Keywords
Formalism; Education; Social classes