Article
French
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Abstract
International audience The French "lycée" (higher secondary school), pupils are faced with successive subjects choices, and with the choice of Baccalauréat's speciality. This paper investigates from empirical data how these choices are progressively generated, along time and under which academic and social mechanisms. Those academic subjects choices prove to be influenced less by educational factors than by the concern to optimize one's schooling career. As long as the different routes are perceived as a hierarchy, and if concern for distinction and utilitarism are prevailing, the relevance of the notion of project has to be questionned.