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This article is based on an investigation carried out on young men who are studying for a CAP in vehicle maintenance and in hairdressing (a vocational training examination). The article focuses on the making of different forms of masculinity at the junction between primary and secondary socialisations. We show that primary socialisation (family, friends and school) by acting on the constitution of leisure activities and of diverse dispositions offers the conditions for congruent or atypical course choices. We show that the contexts of training have their own effect. They shape gender differentiation in the ways of being, of acting and thinking through the skills and attitudes required and through orchestrated sociabilities. By accentuating some characteristics of past socialisation, these trainings participate in the construction of two forms of masculinity in working-class families and in the social circumstances leading to a reproduction of the gender order.