The Distinction For Medical Students Perceptions - Symbols - Practices An Anthropological Approach For Medical Students At The University Of Tlemcen

Abstract

Proceeding from the fact that the university expresses the elite in any society, it expresses in Algeria a differentiation in the levels of the elite, this differentiation produced a set of phenomena that have become a tradition for some students, which is  phenomenon of Distinction .

This phenomenon is clearly embodied in medical students compared to students in other scientific, technical, social and humanitarian institutes and disciplines, this identification of the phenomenon stems from the status of medicine in the university system on the one hand, as well as from the status of medicine in Algerian society in general.

The distinction of this category (medical students) expresses  distinction within this world, where I can say that the world of medicine is now established as a social organization, has its own privacy and objectives and thus makes it negotiate within the social fabric and with the various segments of society from a position of strength, this force is used to maintain the social status of this category at the material and intellectual level in the face of various material and intellectual structures of other groups within the social fabric.