Abstract
The following qualitative research questions the specialization of students at university and their motives for committing themselves to a Ph.D. The authors show how the specialization of these students, beyond their commitment to achieve their doctoral work, is first a matter of relation to knowledge, remote from any professional integration strategy. The “Alceste” lexical analysis of a corpus of 16 semi-structured interviews reveals the significant presence of syntagms which show the preference of eight Ph.D. students specialized in history and eight Ph.D. students specialized in mathematics for a given type of knowledge. Committing oneself to research is first a question of pleasure and appeal. It cannot be dissociated from the subjective functions that such active knowledge fulfils for a subject.
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