This is the most personal book of Pierre Bourdieu, for which he applies his acting ability to his own field: academia. In this sense, the analysis proposed has an almost autobiographical imprint, but mostly a strong intellectual commitment. Bourdieu demonstrates that the field of the university is the place of a constant power struggle that develops following a specific logic to the academic and intellectual or scientific prestige are the two poles of that struggle, and the dominant disciplines and practices distributed around them.