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Principles of Vision: General Sociology, Volume 4 Cloth (Hardcover)
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Principles of Vision: General Sociology, Volume 4 Cloth (Hardcover)
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This is the fourth of five volumes based on the 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, and
in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts which
have come to define his distinctive intellectual approach. Having
elaborated the concepts of habitus and field in previous volumes,
Bourdieu now undertakes an analysis of the relations between them,
showing that social fields are objects of perception and knowledge
for the agents engaged in them. The field of forces is the source
of different visions of the social world, visions that are linked
to agents' positions via the specific interests that motivate them
and the habitus that is, at least partly, the product of the
determining factors associated with their position. This relation
between the world perceived and our cognitive structures explains
why the social world commonly appears as self-evident. Visions of
the social world are necessarily different and often antagonistic,
and the field of forces is at once the source and the goal of
struggles over its present and future being: the struggle for the
legitimate principle of vision and division helps to transform or
conserve the field of forces that underlies the agents'
standpoints. An ideal introduction to some of Bourdieu's most
important ideas, this volume will be of great interest to 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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