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David L. Swartz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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In memoriam: Pierre Bourdieu 1930–2002
Theory and Society, 2020Co-Authors: David L. SwartzAbstract:A travers un survol de sa carriere intellectuelle et de son oeuvre, cet article rend hommage a Pierre Bourdieu, decede en 2002. Il met l'accent sur la portee politique du travail de Bourdieu, dimension qui s'est manifestee a travers ses multiples engagements publics
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The Sociology of Habit: The Perspective of Pierre Bourdieu
Otjr-occupation Participation and Health, 2020Co-Authors: David L. SwartzAbstract:The work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has stimulated new interest in habituated forms of conduct. His concept of habitus has become a leading reference in the growing sociological literature on theories of human action as practices. This article presents Bourdieu's concept of habitus by calling attention to its intellectual context and identifying the features that relate to the sociology of habit. The article identifies common characteristics of action regulated by habit and offers four programmatic implications for occupational therapy interventions.
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symbolic power politics and intellectuals the political sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
2013Co-Authors: David L. SwartzAbstract:Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that symbolic power - the power to dominate - is solely symbolic. He emphasized that symbolic power helps create and maintain social hierarchies, which form the very bedrock of political life. By the time of his death in 2002, Bourdieu had become a leading public intellectual, and his argument about the more subtle and influential ways that cultural resources and symbolic categories prevail in power arrangements and practices had gained broad recognition. In "Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals", David L. Swartz delves deeply into Bourdieu's work to show how central - but often overlooked - power and politics are to an understanding of sociology. Arguing that power and politics also stand at the core of Bourdieu's sociology, Swartz illuminates Bourdieu's political project for the social sciences, as well as Bourdieu's own political activism, explaining how sociology is not just science but also a crucial form of political engagement.
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in memoriam Pierre Bourdieu 1930 2002
Theory and Society, 2004Co-Authors: David L. SwartzAbstract:A travers un survol de sa carriere intellectuelle et de son oeuvre, cet article rend hommage a Pierre Bourdieu, decede en 2002. Il met l'accent sur la portee politique du travail de Bourdieu, dimension qui s'est manifestee a travers ses multiples engagements publics
Craig Calhoun - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Pierre Bourdieu and Social Transformation: Lessons from Algeria
Development and Change, 2006Co-Authors: Craig CalhounAbstract:Pierre Bourdieu is not usually considered a development theorist. Yet Bourdieu’s sociological perspective is deeply rooted in his studies of Al- geria. The most famous of these are read largely for their insights into the logic of practice — including prominently Bourdieu’s development of the notion of habitus as a way of integrating structural and phenomenological analysis, his effort to incorporate subjective and objective perspectives into a single analytic orientation, and his accounts of symbolic violence and cul- tural capital.1 But it is worthwhile also to recognize how much they reflect his engagement with the economic and social transformations attendant on Algeria’s colonization by France and incorporation into capitalist economic relations. One misunderstands his studies of France as well as Algeria if one does not recognize that, for all their attention to the reproduction of inequal- ities and social structures, they are grounded in an attempt to understand just how wrenching the deep transformation of such structures is. This situates Bourdieu directly in the sociology of development, with reference to Alge- ria and also to his native B´ earn region of France (Bourdieu, 1972a, 2002a). Bourdieu also conducted major studies directly on such key development themes as the transformation of agriculture and the interaction between ur- ban labour markets and village life (see Bourdieu and Sayad, 1964; Bourdieu et al., 1995). These in turn informed his examination of the experience of poverty amid the wealth of modern societies, not least among immigrants from those same formerly colonial and still underdeveloped societies
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Putting the sociologist in the sociology of culture: the self-reflexive scholarship of Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Williams
1990Co-Authors: Craig CalhounAbstract:Reviewed work(s): Homo Academicus. by Pierre Bourdieu; Peter Collier Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism. by Raymond Williams; Robin Gable; Robin Blackburn The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists. by Raymond Williams; Tony Pinkney
William F. Hanks - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Pierre Bourdieu AND THE PRACTICES OF LANGUAGE
Annual Review of Anthropology, 2005Co-Authors: William F. HanksAbstract:This paper synthesizes research on linguistic practice and critically examines the legacy of Pierre Bourdieu from the perspective of linguistic anthropology. Bourdieu wrote widely about language and linguistics, but his most far reaching engagement with the topic is in his use of linguistic reasoning to elaborate broader sociological concepts including habitus, field, standardization, legitimacy, censorship, and symbolic power. The paper examines and relates habitus and field in detail, tracing the former to the work of Erwin Panofsky and the latter to structuralist discourse semantics. The principles of relative autonomy, boundedness, homology, and embedding apply to fields and their linkage to habitus. Authority, censorship, and euphemism are traced to the field, and symbolic power is related to misrecognition. And last, this chapter relates recent work in linguistic anthropology to practice and indicates lines for future research.
Omar Lizardo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Pierre Bourdieu as a Post-cultural Theorist:
Cultural Sociology, 2011Co-Authors: Omar LizardoAbstract:Pierre Bourdieu is without doubt one of the main figures in the sociological study of culture today. Yet, for a theorist so central to the subject matter of cultural studies, it is clear that there is no coherent account of Bourdieu stance in relation to the ‘concept of culture’ among current commentators. More importantly, in the sister-discipline of anthropology, Bourdieu is thought of as a central figure precisely because he helped move contemporary anthropological theory away from the centrality of the culture concept. This paper reviews this peculiar double reception of Bourdieu’s anthropological and sociological work, closely examining these unacknowledged strands of Bourdieu’s thinking on culture. The basic argument is that the anthropological reception of Bourdieu’s work is more faithful to the outlines of his late-career intellectual development while the sociological portrayal — Bourdieu as a Sausserean culture theorist with a ‘Weberian power twist’— is fundamentally misleading. I close by outli...
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Pierre Bourdieu as a post-cultural theorist
Cultural Sociology, 2011Co-Authors: Omar LizardoAbstract:Pierre Bourdieu is without doubt one of the main figures in the sociological study of culture today. Yet, for a theorist so central to the subject matter of cultural studies, it is clear that there is no coherent account of Bourdieu stance in relation to the ‘concept of culture’ among current commentators. More importantly, in the sister-discipline of anthropology, Bourdieu is thought of as a central figure precisely because he helped move contemporary anthropological theory away from the centrality of the culture concept. This paper reviews this peculiar double reception of Bourdieu’s anthropological and sociological work, closely examining these unacknowledged strands of Bourdieu’s thinking on culture. The basic argument is that the anthropological reception of Bourdieu’s work is more faithful to the outlines of his late-career intellectual development while the sociological portrayal – Bourdieu as a Sausserean culture theorist with a ‘Weberian power twist’– is fundamentally misleading. I close by outlining how Bourdieu’s work points towards a yet-to-be developed ‘post-cultural’ stance – one that takes cognition, experience and the body seriously – in the sociological study of culture.
Violaine Roussel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Le droit et ses formes. Eléments de discussion de la sociologie du droit de Pierre Bourdieu
Droit et société, 2004Co-Authors: Violaine RousselAbstract:Dans ses travaux sur le droit, Pierre Bourdieu s’est surtout intéressé aux effets de légitimation attachés à la neutralité et à l’universalité ju- ridiques : le droit dissimule les rapports de force qui sont à son prin- cipe et a ainsi à voir avec des mécanismes de domination et de vio- lence symbolique. On veut ici revenir sur les difficultés liées à la défi- nition Bourdieusienne d’un champ juridique et sur sa conception de ce qui fait « la force du droit ». On discute d’abord cette sociologie dans la mesure où elle réserve souvent aux professionnels de ce champ la capacité à jouer sur le droit et à en faire des usages stratégiques. On réexamine ensuite le pouvoir spécifique que Bourdieu prête aux opéra- tions de mise en forme juridique et de codification
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Le droit et ses formes. Éléments de discussion de la sociologie du droit de Pierre Bourdieu
Droit et société, 2004Co-Authors: Violaine RousselAbstract:Dans ses travaux sur le droit, Pierre Bourdieu s’est surtout intéressé aux effets de légitimation attachés à la neutralité et à l’universalité ju- ridiques : le droit dissimule les rapports de force qui sont à son prin- cipe et a ainsi à voir avec des mécanismes de domination et de vio- lence symbolique. On veut ici revenir sur les difficultés liées à la défi- nition Bourdieusienne d’un champ juridique et sur sa conception de ce qui fait « la force du droit ». On discute d’abord cette sociologie dans la mesure où elle réserve souvent aux professionnels de ce champ la capacité à jouer sur le droit et à en faire des usages stratégiques. On réexamine ensuite le pouvoir spécifique que Bourdieu prête aux opéra- tions de mise en forme juridique et de codification
