In this major work, Bourdieu examines the distinctive forms of
power - political, intellectual, bureaucratic and economic - by
means of which contemporary societies are governed. What kinds of
competence are claimed by the bureaucrats and technocrats who
administer our societies? And how do those who govern come to gain
the recognition of those who are governed by them?
Bourdieu examines in detail the work of consecration which is
carried out by the educational system - and especially in France by
the grandes "ecoles," The work of consecration can be seen in
operation in different historical periods, whenever a nobility is
produced. Today the socially recognized groups function according
to a logic similar to that which characterized the divisions
between high and low in the "ancien regime." Today this state
nobility is the heir - structural and sometimes even genealogical -
of the "noblesse de "robe which, in order to consolidate its
position in relation to other forms of power, had to construct the
modern state and the republican myths, meritocracy and civil
service which went along with it.
Bourdieu examines the mechanisms which produce the kind of
nobility displayed by those who govern, and the recognition granted
to them by those who are governed by them.
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