De l'institutionnalisation d'une forme culturelle à la structuration de l'espace de formation professionnelle: le cas du cirque en France

Abstract

In France, the institutionalization of circus, widely sustained by the state, has extended to circus schools, some of which having proposed an apprenticeship of the profession of artist. Here we study the effects of such an endeavor toward respectability of this cultural form on the professional socialization of the circus apprentices. We notice a dual structuration process of the space of apprenticeship from the top (the state) and the bottom (the schools). Given the early stage of this space, all the schools are gradually constrained by a rationale of permanent adjustment to the contest of the professional socialization.