ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of keywords covered in the subsequent chapters of the book. This book is divided into four chapters. In the first one, to identify the main structural factors for career choices in the cultural sector, and, more precisely, in cultural management. And also show how transformations in the higher education system and the rise of specialized training programmes in cultural management favour such a choice. In chapter two, shows how these objective and collective conditions fit with social dispositions of specific agents in order to explain the transformation of structural factors into subjective and individual aspirations. In chapter three, author turn to a qualitative interpretation of the forms and the meanings of vocation resulting from the combination of objective conditions and subjective perceptions. The final chapter explores, in a broader perspective, social reproduction and how the young would-be cultural managers combine anti-conformism and individual strategies of adjustment to the social order.
