Poder, derecho y clases sociales

by Pierre Bourdieu

Este libro constituye una ocasión importante para reconstruir algunas de las claves básicas de la sociología de Bourdieu. Es parte necesaria de toda una obra dedicada a desvelar lo que el sentido común calla u oculta , a dar razón del orden social que se esconde tras el orden simbólico, a descubrir las diferentes formas de dominación de ese orden (incluida la jurídica). Para ello, Bourdieu ha ido elaborando un trabajo científico que, para romper con las premoniciones y los prejuicios de la visión dominante, debe construir sus propios instrumentos de análisis de la realidad social.

244 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

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).

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[Antonia M · Rating 3 out of 5]

Si lo que tiene mi viejito es que a veces es bien fome para escribir, pero mentiras no dice