¿Pierre Bourdieu era “bachelardiano”? / Was Pierre Bourdieu "Bachelardian"?

This article critically analyzes the relationship between Gaston Bachelard's epistemology and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology. The first part of the article analyzes Bourdieu's reading of epistemology by the anthropologist Denis Baranger who, inspired by Jean-Claude Passeron's philosophy of science, characterizes it as strictly "Bachelardian", which prevents understanding the nature of the concept of reflexivity, central to the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. In the second part, it is argued that, when dealing with the relationship between Gaston Bachelard's epistemology and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology from a processual or genetic perspective, it is possible to describe the trajectory followed by Bourdieu that goes from a use of Bachelard's epistemology to justify sociology as a science of practice, to the construction of this science as the basis of a general restructured epistemology. This is characterized as a sociologization of Bachelard's epistemology, therefore, as a break up with the conceptual "philosophical" regime. In light of this new perspective, it is concluded that Baranger's reading is insufficient to understand Bourdieu's epistemology and all its implications, particularly its contribution to the constitution of the sociological paradigm.