Notes from a New Reading

Inspired by a seminar given at EHESS in 1982, published in different versions and for the first time in the form of a book in 1989 (Grignon & Passeron, 1983, 1985, 2015), Le Savant et le Populaire has not lost any of its relevance. The sociological questions that Jean-Claude Passeron and I wrote about have become “societal questions” that are constantly rehashed in the media; the term “populism” is increasingly popular. The relations between the dominant and the dominated classes, between th...