Khâgne is the name of the classes préparatoires training for the entrance examinations in the "humanities" for the Grandes écoles. The trans-class trajectory of the sociogists coming from working class, a significant important group by the intellectuals of the generation of 1960, is perhaps one of the main raisons of the success of a "scientific revolution" in the french social sciences. The analysis of the ambivalent relation with the Elite Culture was the critical instrument of a political, personal and professional reconversion.
Cultural capital; High culture; École normale supérieure; khâgne; Scientific revolution; Strategies of reconversion