In this article, I carry out a “double reflexivity” analysis, i.e. an analysis of the habitus of the translator on the translation objects and an analysis of the habitus of the translation researcher who carries out a self-analysis on his research. I attempt to realize a double reflexivity from the genesis of TTR (1987) to the publishing of my first article on the sociology of translation (1994) and of the monographies which followed. In the introduction, I question the relevance of Bourdieu as regards the research on translation, resulting in the implementation of the sociologist’s social ideas to translation studies. On the basis of the notions of field, habitus and illusio are analysed the texts (or objects) under study in the source and target spaces. Making a flashback on the history of the translation studies field, I examine TTR’s emergence conditions. Then I deal with the Anglo-American literature which was translated and/or adapted in the fields of literature in France: the Anglo-American adventure novel in the French literary space for youth (1826-1960); the Anglo-American realist novel in the French literary field (1920-1960); American Science Fiction in the French cultural space of the 1950s; the metamorphoses of the Anglo-American detective novel in France (Série Noire, 1945-1960). As a conclusion, I briefly recall what distinguishes the translation agent from the translation studies agent and what the translation studies field and its stakes consist in.