bourdieu, 1991
147163835
Appropriating Bourdieu: Feminist Theory and Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology of Culture*
EMINIST THEORY is critical theory; feminist critique is therefore necessarily political. In making this claim I draw on the Marxist concept of "critique," succinctly summarized by Kate Soper as a theoretical exercise which, by "explaining the source in reality of the cognitive shortcomings of the theory under attack, call[s] for changes in the reality itself" (93) In this sense, Soper writes, feminist critique comes to echo critical theory as developed by the Frankfurt School with its emphasis on "argued justification for concrete, emancipatory practice" (93).1 This is clearly an ambitious aim, which would require me to situate Pierre Bourdieu's social theory in relation to the specific French social formation which produced it. Such analysis would require substantial empirical research: there is no space for such an undertaking in this context. I have therefore called this paper "Appropriating Bourdieu." By "appropriation" I understand a critical assessment of a given theory formation with a view to taking it over and using it for feminist purposes.2 Appropriation, then, is theoretically somewhat more modest than a full scale critique and has a relatively well defined concrete purpose. Neither "appropriation" nor "critique" rely on the idea of a transcendental vantage point from which to scrutinize the theory formation in question. Unlike the Enlightenment concept of "criticism," the concept of "critique" as used here is immanent and dialectical. My proposal of "appropriation" and "critique" as key feminist activities is intended to contest the idea that feminists are
Toril Moi
45801974
Culture as Class Symbolization or Mass Reification? A Critique of Bourdieu's Distinction
Pierre Bourdieu's theory of culture as a system of symbols furthering a misrecognition of class is critically compared to the Frankfurt school's theory of culture as reifying cimmodities furthering an unrecognition of class. Because of their approaches to history, both theories recognize only part of the complex reality of modern capitalist culture. Bourdieu's ahistorical structuralism fails to grasp the historical changes produced in culture by capitalism, while critical theory's essentialism fails to specify the concrete factors mediating the historical effects of capitalism on culture. As a corrective to both, a neo Marxist theory is developed that grasps the totality of capitalist culture by grounding the effects of class on culture in concrete, historical class struggle.
American Journal of Sociology
David Gartman
144898129
The Sociology of Economic Life
Introduction Foundations of Economic Sociology The Economy as an Instituted Process Karl Polanyi Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness Mark Granovetter Max Webers Vision of Economic Sociology Richard Swedberg Forms of Capital Pierre Bourdieu Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action Alejandro Portes and Julia Sensenbrenner The Sociology of Markets The Bazaar Economy Clifford Geertz Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th Century America Viviana Zelizer Economic and Sociological Approaches to Gender Inequality in Pay William Bridges and Robert Nelson Non Contractural relations in Business Stewart Macaulay Social Structure and Competition: The Paradox of Embeddedness Brian Uzzi The Sociology of Firms and Markets Group Dynamics and Intergroup Relations George Strauss Men Who Manage Melville Dalton Bureaucratic and Craft Administration of Production Arthur Stinchcombe Processing Fads and Fashions Paul Hirsch Functional and Historical Logics in Explaining the Rise of the American Industrial Corporation William Roy Coase Revisited: Business Groups in the Modern Economy Mark Granovetter Inside Out: Regional Networks and Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128 AnnaLee Saxenian Comparative and Historical Economic Sociology Webers Last Theory of Capitalism Randall Collins Why the Economy Reflects the Polity: Early Rail Policy in Britain, France, and the United States Frank Dobbin Goodwill and the Spirit of Market Capitalism Ronald Dore Market, Culture and Authority: A Comparative Analysis of Management and Organization in the Far East Gary Hamilton and Nicole Biggart Recombinant Property in East European Capitalism David Stark About the Book and the Editors
Mark S Granovetter Richard Swedberg
160188558
Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies
Rethinking Popular Culture, Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson Printing and the People, Natalie Zemon Davis Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint Severin, Robert Darnton The Rise of the Saloon, Roy Rosenzweig William Shakespeare and the American People: A Study in Cultural Transformation, Lawrence W. Levine The Dream World of Mass Consumption, Rosalind Williams Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, Clifford Geertz La Pensee Bourgeoise, Marshall Sahlins Jokes, Mary Douglas Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems, Paul Hirsch Movies of the Week, Todd Gitlin Sport and Social Class, Pierre Bourdieu Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America, Paul DiMaggio The Public Sphere, Jurgen Habermas Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory, Raymond Williams The Suit and the Photograph, John Berger Written Clothing, Roland Barthes What Is an Author? Michel Foucault Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: The Functions of Romance Reading, Janice Radway
Chandra Mukerji Michael Schudson
140419393
L'immigration ou les paradoxes de l'alterite: 1. L'illusion du provisoire, 2. Les enfants illegitimes
"Avec Abdelmalek Sayad, le sociologue se fait ecrivain public. Il donne la parole a ceux qui en sont le plus cruellement depossedes. Pierre Bourdieu, 1991. Trente annees d'enquetes realisees par le sociologue Abdelmalek Sayad (1933 1998) ont renouvele l'etude du phenomene migratoire a l'immigration dans une societe correspond toujours une emigration hors d'une autre societe. L'une ne peut s'expliquer sans l'autre.
Abdelmalek Sayad
145678991
Educating the Body: Physical Capital and the Production of Social Inequalities
This paper seeks to challenge the marginal status of the body in sociology by examining the place of `the physical' in the production of social inequalities. After reviewing briefly Bourdieu's concept of embodied capital, I seek to extend his analysis by examining some recent work which looks at gender and the body society relationship. It will be argued that a social analysis of the body is central to understanding the production of gender inequalities, and that sociologists should take more seriously the multiple ways in which bodies enter into the construction of social inequalities.
Chris Shilling
146470222
Language and Symbolic Power
Preface Editor's Introduction General Introduction Part I The Economy of Linguistic Exchanges Introduction 1. The Production and Reproduction of Legitimate Language 2. Price Formation and the Anticipation of Profits Appendix: Did You Say 'Popular' Part II The Social Institution of Symbolic Power Introduction 3. Authorized Language: The Social Conditions for the Effectiveness of Ritual Discourse 4. Rites of Institution 5. Description and Prescription: The Conditions of Possibility and the Limits of Political Effectiveness 6. Censorship and the Imposition of Form Part III Symbolic Power and the Political Field 7. On Symbolic Power 8. Political Representation: Elements for a Theory of the Political Field 9. Delegation and Political Fetishism 10. Identity and Representation: Elements for a Critical Reflection on the Idea of Region 11. Social Space and the Genesis of 'Classes' Note Index
Pierre Bourdieu John Bodine Thompson
142061864
The Craft of Sociology: Epistemological Preliminaries
The work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged, over the last two decades, as one of the most substantial and innovative bodies of theory and research in contemporary social science. The Craft of Sociology, both a textbook and an original contribution to epistemology in social science, focuses on a basic problem of sociological research: the necessity of an epistemological break with the preconstructed objects social practice offers to the researcher. Pierre Bourdieu and his co authors argue in the epistemological tradition of scholars like Bachelard, Canguilhem, Koyre, a tradition that identifies the construction of the object as being the fundamental scientific act. Their way of discussing the issue makes it accessible not only to academics and experts of epistemology, but also to advanced students of social science, using for illustration a wide range of texts from the various social sciences as well as from philosophy of science. The book includes an interview with Pierre Bourdieu and an introduction by the editor to his sociological methodology.
Pierre Bourdieu J C Chamboredon J Passeron
143127909
The peculiar history of scientific reason
Science is a social field of forces, struggles, and relationships that is defined at every moment by the relations of power among the protagonists. Scientific choices are guided by taken for granted assumptions, interactive with practices, as to what constitutes real and important problems, valid methods, and authentic knowledge. Such choices also are shaped by the social capital controlled by various positions and stances within the field. This complex and dynamic representation thus simultaneously rejects both the absolutist idealist conception of the immanent development of science and the historicist relativism of those who consider science as purely a conventional social construct. The strategies used in science are at once social and intellectual; for example, strategies that are founded on implicit agreement with the established scientific order are thereby in affinity with the positions of power within the field itself. In established scientific fields of high autonomy, "revolutions" no longer are necessarily at the same time political ruptures but rather are generated within the field themselves: the field becomes the site of a permanent revolution. Under certain conditions, then, strategies used in struggles for symbolic power transcend themselves as they are subjected to the crisscrossing censorship that represents the constitutive reason of the field. The necessary and sufficient condition for this critical correction is a social organization such that each participant can realize specific interest only by mobilizing all the scientific resources available for overcoming the obstacles shared by all his or her competitors. Thus, the type of analysis here illustrated does not lead to reductive bias or sociologism that would undermine its own foundations. Rather it points to a comprehensive and reflexive objectivism that opens up a liberating collective self analysis.
Pierre Bourdieu
142952756
The political ontology of Martin Heidegger
Preface. Introduction: Skewed thinking. 1. Pure philosophy and the Zeitgeist. 2. The philosophical field and the space of possibilities. 3. A a conservative revolutiona in philosophy. 4. Censorship and the imposition of form. 5. Internal readings and the respect of form. 6. Self interpretation and the evolution of the system. Notes. Index.
Pierre Bourdieu