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In the globalized world, work presents itself as a nub of actualization of intermixed relations of domination. How does the ethnological analysis study such intermixed relations? To answer the question the first part of the paper evokes the debate Pierre Bourdieu/Gérard Althabe. The approach of Bourdieu is structuralist and so the goal of the sociological analysis is to display the symbolic structure of the social positions. The approach of Althabe is constructivist and tries to show the production of social relations by the power of imagination. In the second part of the paper three researches of territory are briefly presented : prostitution in the brothels of Potosi in Bolivia, the job of the highly qualified women of University of Canton in China, the job in the building industry in Oran in Algeria by way of a return to the Bourdieu’s work. In these very different situations, the analysis lays stress on the means by which the social agents build their social relations.