Pierre Bourdieu : éléments d'une analyse du champ du conseil

This article proposes an empirical application of the concepts of champ and doxa to the world of consulting. These concepts elaborated by Pierre Bourdieu, along with those of capital, of habitus, and illusio make up a (or one) system. They allow us to understand the problem of evaluation in a ?critical? perspective. While the modalities used to evaluate a service appear either in part or in whole to be incomprehensible when we search for ?objective??criteria, the sociological analysis will concentrate more on the way that these criteria are established. This analysis will concentrate on the limitations that bind consultants as they themselves have defined them and how they are often obliged to justify them during their consulting services.