This is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by
Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège 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. In this
volume, Bourdieu focuses on two of his most important and
influential concepts: habitus and field. For the social
scientist, the object of study is neither the individual nor the
group but the relation between these two manifestations of the
social in bodies and in things: that is, the obscure, dual relation
between the habitus – as a system of schemas of perception,
appreciation and action – and the field as a system of objective
relations and a space of possible actions and struggles aimed at
preserving or transforming the field. The relation between the
habitus and the field is a two-way process: it is a relation of
conditioning, where the field structures the habitus, and it is
also a relation of knowledge, with the habitus helping to
constitute the field as a world that is endowed with meaning and
value. The specificity of social science lies in the fact that it
takes as its object of knowledge a reality that encompasses agents
who take this same reality as the object of their own knowledge. 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Polity Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
July 2023 |
| First published: |
2019 |
| Authors: |
Pierre Bourdieu
|
| Translators: |
Peter Collier
|
| Dimensions: |
248 x 186 x 31mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
432 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5095-6066-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5095-6066-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781509560660 |
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