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This article aims to produce a social geography of a Norman market town and to relate it to the public revitalization policies planned there. The social groups present in this market town are therefore analysed on the basis of socio-professional categories. This shows the working-class affiliation of its populations. This does not preclude the presence of more affluent households drawn, for example, from the intermediate professions and executives. However, the public policies implemented appear to be only faintly produced by or for the working-class categories, even though they are in the majority. We therefore propose a new concept to account for these gaps between public action, its territorialization in a given space, and the social reality in which it is applied locally: the term for this concept is territorialized institutional disjunctions.