This article aims to understand the genesis and development of the sociology of Bourdieu in connection with his social and intellectual positioning. The sociology of Bourdieu is a theory of action that reconciles the dual requirement of objectification and that of taking into account the practical logic bound by social agents. Staring with the both objective and subjective character of the social space, he analyzed how different institutions (firstly school) make mental structures match the objective structures of society. By making reality acceptable and registering it in the body, these instances contribute to reproducing social divisions and participate in the work of domination. Gradually, Bourdieu developed a general theory about power, which led him to create a sociology of the state. But he refused any sociological fatalism. Because he perceived homologies between the sociologist and the artist facing the social order, each in their own way, he devoted two research studies to Flaubert and Manet, engaged in the same enterprise of aesthetic subversion he described as a “symbolic revolution.” In many aspects, the sociology of Bourdieu opens ways of looking for an objectification of caregivers and their practices.