This study aims to analyze some aspects of personal and familiar trajectories of students who had not a probable academic success. From poorer ancestry, with low income and low inheritance of scholar culture, the students researched surpassed a universe of students who entered in courses considered as elite from the University of São Paulo. To undertake this analysis I will use as base Pierre Bordieu's concept of cultural capital, proposing an interpretative amplification of this concept. Bernard Lahire's methodological contribution will also have a prominent role in this analysis. I propose to understand the success course of the individuals researched according to Lahire's perspectives, although I will not limit the subject only to the aspect between the family instance and the school written by him. To my mind the Brazilian contemporary student socializes not only as of interdependence among hybrid references, shaped as of the traditional instances of the education but also through a diffuse system of knowledge and information propagated by the media.
Socialization; Media; Graduate students; Academic success; Cultural capital
