Politics and Sociology: General Sociology, Volume 5

ISBN-13: 9781509526727 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Pierre Bourdieu

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Editorial NoteAcknowledgementsLecture of 17 April 1986First session (lecture): recapitulation - Symbolic capital - Cognition and misrecognition - Symbolic power as fetish - Socialization through social structures - A political phenomenology of experience - Nostalgia for a lost paradise - From doxa to orthodoxy - Returning to symbolic power.Second session (seminar): biography and social trajectory (1) - The prob-lem of the unity of the self - The unity of the self across different spaces - The self as foundation of the socially constituted individual - Curriculum vitae, cursus honorum, criminal record, school reports.Lecture of 24 April 1986First session (lecture): the fidès, a historical realization of symbolic capital - An ethnology of the unconscious - The examples of ethnicity and the designer label - The habitus as determination and as sensitivity.Second session (seminar): biography and social trajectory (2) - Importing a literary break - Establishing consistency - The space of biographical discourse - From the life story to the analysis of trajectories.Lecture of 15 May 1986First session (lecture): a dispositional solution - The independence of the habitus from the present - Prediction, protention and projection - Changing the habitus - Power - The petit-bourgeois relation to culture.Second session (seminar): To the Lighthouse (1) - Fields as traps - A man-child - Men, oblates of the social world.Lecture of 22 May 1986First session (lecture): summary of previous lectures - Socialized individual and abstract individual - Habitus and the principle of choice - Mental structures and objective structures - The magical match of the body with the world - The false problem of responsibility - Coincidence of positions and dispositions - Amor fati.Second session (seminar): To the Lighthouse (2) - Incorporating the politi-cal - Paternal power and the verdict effect - The somatization of social cri-ses - Metamorphosis and the founding experience of primordial power.Lecture of 29 May 1986First session (lecture): the division of labour in the production of representations - A theory of action - The conditions of rational decision - The problem as such does not exist - Deliberation as accident - A broader rationalism - Alternatives and the logic of the field.Second session (seminar): the field of power (1) - The field of power and differentiation of fields - The emergence of universes 'as such' - Power over capital - Power and its legitimization.Lecture of 5 June 1986First session (lecture): eternal false problems - The alternative of mechanism and purposiveness, and the conditions of rationality - Scientific oppositions and political oppositions - The practical mastery of structures - Imposing the right point of view.Second session (seminar): the field of power (2) - The example of the 'capacities' - Educational system, numerus clausus and social reproduction - The search for stable forms of capital - The strategies of reproduction according to species of capital - Sociodicy and ideologyLecture of 12 June 1986First session (lecture): the space of positions and the space of stand-points - The representation of the social world at stake - A collective construction - A cognitive struggle - Making the implicit explicit - The specificity of the scientific field.Second session (seminar): the field of power (3) - Boundaries of the fields and right of entry - The example of the literary field - Flow of capital and variations in the exchange rate - Establishing a new mode of reproduction - Maxwell's demon.Lecture of 19 June 1986Practical struggles and struggles among theoreticians - The struggles of the professional explicators - Science of science and relativism.Science as a social field - A rationalist relativism - The vulnerability of social science - The Gerschenkron effect - The problem of the existence of social classes - 'Class': a well-constructed fiction - Constructed classes and infra-representational classes - The constructivist phase.Situating the Later Volumes of General Sociology in the Work of Pierre BourdieuSummary of Lectures of 1985-1986NotesIndex

O autorze

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was one of the most influential sociologists and anthropologists of the late twentieth century. He was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. His many works include Outline of a Theory of Practice, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, The Rules of Art, The Logic of Practice and Pascalian Meditations.