Abstract
Adopting the hypothesis that there are correlations between social space and the symbolic constructions that emerge in it that make both intelligible, the article articulates the objective positions and transnational careers that conditioned the theoretical positions of Celso Furtado (1920-2004) and Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1931). These two cases are of sociological interest because they go against the asymmetric tendencies of the global space of social sciences: despite their origin in the “global south”, their works were effectively integrated in the “center”; they disputed explanations, won stops, lost others, their peers did not pass unscathed. Moreover, they were anointed by consecration, even if in countries with different positions in the hierarchy of space.
Keywords:
Brazil-United States; Brazil-France; International circulation of symbolic goods; Sociology of Intellectuals; Consecration