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Classification Struggles, Course of General Sociology, Volume 1 (1981-1982) (Hardcover)
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Classification Struggles, Course of General Sociology, Volume 1 (1981-1982) (Hardcover)
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This is the first of five volumes that will be based on lectures
given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early
1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures,
Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual
discipline, giving it his own distinctive twist. In doing so he
introduces and clarifies all the key concepts for which he has
become so well-known, such as field, capital and habitus, concepts
that continue to shape the way that sociology is practiced today.
In this first volume, Bourdieu focuses on the fundamental social
processes of naming and classifying the world, the ways that social
actors use words to construct social objects and the struggles that
arise from this. The sociologist encounters a world that is already
named, already classified, where objects and social realities are
marked by signs that have already been assigned to them. In order
to avoid the naivete and confusion that stem from taking for
granted a world that has been socially constituted, sociologists
must examine the part played by words in the construction of social
things - or, to put it differently, the contribution that
classification struggles, a dimension of all class struggles, play
in the constitution of classes, including classes of age, sex, race
and social class. An ideal introduction to some of Bourdieu's most
important concepts and ideas, this volume will be of great interest
to the many students and scholars who study and use Bourdieu's work
across the social sciences and humanities, and to general readers
who want to know more about the work of one of the most important
sociologists and social thinkers of the 20th century.
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