ABSTRACT
In beginning Homo Academicus, Bourdieu counsels himself in these terms:
The sociologist who chooses to study his own world in its nearest and most familiar aspects should not, as the ethnologist would, domesticate the exotic, but, if I may venture the expression, exoticize the domestic, through a break with his initial relation of intimacy with the mode of life and thought which remain opaque to him because they are too familiar.
