This synthesis of different personal studies is grounded in Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology, in particular in the studies published in L’Amour de l’art – The Love of Art: European Museums and their Public (1991). But rather than offer a theory of cultural dissemination, it focuses on the professionalisation of socio-cultural facilitation that has developed since the 1960s. To focus on the « small » socio-educational world of sociocultural facilitation and people’s education is an invitation to be attentive to « small » significant differences. The point is, on the one hand, to study the new socio-educational professions at the margin of the school universe. On the other, to explore the role of leisure activities in the construction of the academic success and feeling of citizenship of children and young people. Taking this dimension into account serves as a reminder that there is more to education than the learning of academic disciplines. It revitalises issues concerning the reproductive role of schools since non-teaching professions are now invested in different modalities of « cultural catch-up ».