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Zur Soziologie der symbolischen Formen
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200 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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Pierre Bourdieu
361 books1,368 followersBourdieu 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).
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).
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July 21, 2021
Feels a bit like assorted Bourdieu bonus reels.
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Anfangs fühlte sich das Bändchen an, als würde ich Teilhabender von unsortiertem Bourdieu-Bonusmaterial sein. Stellenweise (auch da manche der Artikel Nachworte zu anderen Werken sind) verstand ich nicht einmal die Hälfte der Themen, die Bourdieu besprach. Allerdings sind die fünf Artikel besser zu verstehen als Versuche, seine Thesen zum Strukturalismus der kulturellen Güter und Erscheinungsformen zu erproben und auszuformulieren, was er dann später auch in seinen Hauptwerken gebündelter Tat. Am Ende des Büchleins verstand ich mehr, als ich ursprünglich erwartet hatte, von Bourdieus Erklärungen und Ansichten.
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Anfangs fühlte sich das Bändchen an, als würde ich Teilhabender von unsortiertem Bourdieu-Bonusmaterial sein. Stellenweise (auch da manche der Artikel Nachworte zu anderen Werken sind) verstand ich nicht einmal die Hälfte der Themen, die Bourdieu besprach. Allerdings sind die fünf Artikel besser zu verstehen als Versuche, seine Thesen zum Strukturalismus der kulturellen Güter und Erscheinungsformen zu erproben und auszuformulieren, was er dann später auch in seinen Hauptwerken gebündelter Tat. Am Ende des Büchleins verstand ich mehr, als ich ursprünglich erwartet hatte, von Bourdieus Erklärungen und Ansichten.
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