| Summary: | The following text summarizes the results of two field surveys of children and adolescents from two cities in Western Algeria: Oran (may 2012) and Aïn Temouchent (may 2016). The major results of this research support the claim that in the world of children/adolescents in the lower-income neighborhoods of both cities, learning about the city and citizenship does not involve the association or even the school, least not as priority areas, but religious space. Indeed, the acculturation that operates the school is experienced as going against the socialization led by the family. This conflict of rationalities, opposing a modernizing reason stripped of the “flaws” of the local culture, represented here by the school, to a reason that is faithful to the local culture with an instrumental vision of modernity, represented here by the modest families, finds its full expression in the religious sphere and the rupture between the socialization ensured by the family and the one that the school struggles to ensure to its “potaches”.
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