The “Transclass” figure is fascinating. If many people have more or less the imagination of having struggled to be better than their parents, the underprivileged is someone who is born into an environment without economic and cultural capital and often rises through education. Joined the dominant group. This is the case of Annie Erneaux, Edouard Lewis, Didier Eribon or Gerald Bronner, whose books are public and critical successes. These paths raise a great philosophical question: How sociologically determined are we?
> The statistics are legitimate: in France, the reproduction of social inequalities is huge and transclasses are really exceptions. But do we prioritize them because they make it possible? Ignore the intensity of class struggle ? Will they be against the will? Champions of liberal individualism ?
> there Meritocracy Is she a good role model? there Social reproduction Is it favored by the powerful? there Shame on you Is it a motor? On these three questions, traditional thinkers differ.
> Novelist Nicholas MathewWinner of the Goncourt Prize in 2018 After them are their childrenIt turns with bitter tenderness on its path.
> If everything was played in the school of the Republic? Reported by Martin Lecrosse At a high school in Essonne, philosophy class looks more like a social elevator than a busy bus.
> Does access to capitalism first pass through the mastery of certain codes, especially dignity? Personal story of our journalist Clara Tagiovani catches the idea that“Ethical”, dear Rock Bourdieu.
> The term “Transclass” was proposed by the philosopher Sandal jacket. She discusses it with a sociologist Gerald BronnerThe author of a recent article on the subject, appearance, And who defends the expression “social nomad”.
