El oficio de sociólogo

by Pierre Bourdieu

Debido a que los limites entre el saber comun y la ciencia son, en la sociologia, mas imprecisos que en cualquier otra disciplina, se impone el esfuerzo por examinarla a traves de los principios generales proporcionados por el saber epistemologico. Se incluyen textos sociologicos que enuncian lo esencial del pensamiento cientifico, de su evolucion y de su futuro.

Genres: Sociology, Philosophy, Academic, Social Science

372 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location, and symbolic violence to reveal the dynamics of power relations in social life. His work emphasized the role of practice and embodiment or forms in social dynamics and worldview construction, often in opposition to universalized Western philosophical traditions. He built upon the theories of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Georges Canguilhem, Karl Marx, Gaston Bachelard, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Erwin Panofsky, and Marcel Mauss. A notable influence on Bourdieu was Blaise Pascal, after whom Bourdieu titled his Pascalian Meditations.

Bourdieu rejected the idea of the intellectual "prophet", or the "total intellectual", as embodied by Sartre. His best known book is Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, in which he argues that judgments of taste are related to social position. His argument is put forward by an original combination of social theory and data from surveys, photographs and interviews, in an attempt to reconcile difficulties such as how to understand the subject within objective structures. In the process, he tried to reconcile the influences of both external social structures and subjective experience on the individual (see structure and agency).

Reviews

[Iván · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok... fue, en medida, interesante, pero la forma en que está escrito fue un sufrimiento. Bourdieu y los demás autores, dan información valiosa pero expresado de una forma que no fue del todo amigable.

[xza.rain · Rating 5 out of 5]

« C’est dire que les faits qui valident la théorie valent ce que vaut la théorie qu’ils valident. »

[Emil]

Pas mal (bien aimé) mais on s’est jamais autant branle intellectuellement sur moi allant jusqu’à rendre metametametareflexif sur la sociologie genre frrrr saye

[Natxo Sorolla · Rating 3 out of 5]

Positiu: Revisió de coneixements bàsics per a la sociologia, s'esforça en defensar el caràcter deductiu de la ciència (i empíric), més de la meitat del llibre són textos d'altres sociòlegs que contextualitzen el que s'explica, sobretot francesos. Usa exemples d'altres ciències, i dóna rellevància al llenguatge dintre la Sociologia.
Negatiu: el llenguatge utilitzat és (innecessàriament) farragòs i complex. Cosa que es característica de Bourdieu.

[Sofia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Apenas li dois capítulos para uma disciplina e do que li acho que os autores expõem muito bem a situação da ruptura e da construção do objecto (os dois capítulos que li), consegui identificar algumas noções e problemas que já tinha ouvido falar em disciplinas do ano passado (2012/2013). Este livro apresenta igualmente alguns casos em concreto para elucidar, bom livro.

[Ramiro Gómez-Villerías]

The main message, sometimes simplified, which will be remembered from The Craft of Sociology is that there is no empirical fact without at least an implicit theory and no method without practice.