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Classification struggles : General sociology, volume 1 / Pierre Bourdieu; translated by Peter Collier.
Van Pelt Library HM578.F8 B68213 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Sociologie générale. Volume 1. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology--Study and teaching (Higher)--France.
- Sociology.
- Classification.
- Sociology--Study and teaching (Higher).
- France.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 182 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Contents:
- Lecture of 28 April 1982 p. 1
- Teaching research
- The logic of research and the logic of exposition
- What is classification?
- Classifying the classifying subject
- Constructed divisions and real divisions
- The insult
- Lecture of 5 May 1982 p. 15
- The act of institution
- The insult as magical behaviour
- Coding individuals
- Dividing reality
- The example of socio-occupational categories
- Lecture of 12 May 1982 p. 30
- Objective classification and objectivity
- Objective indicators and strategies of self-representation
- Parenthesis on monumental history
- The ruses of sociological reason
- An objective definition of objective indicators?
- The objectivist moment
- The geometrical point of convergence of all perspectives
- The problem of sampling
- Lecture of 19 May 1982 p. 48
- The legitimate definition of the principle of definition
- Operations of research as acts of constitution
- Classification as an object of conflict
- Objectifying objectivism
- Good classification and scholastic bias
- Theoretical classification and practical classification
- Lecture of 26 May 1982 p. 64
- Moving beyond the alternatives
- Reality and representations of reality
- The autonomy of the social and the problem of self-awareness
- The law, a special case of theory effect
- Words as common sense
- Lecture of 2 June 1982 p. 80
- The act of consecration
- The symbolic struggle over classification
- Symbolic capital
- The manipulation of boundaries between groups
- Defending one's capital
- Lecture of 9 June 1982 p. 101
- The accumulation of symbolic capital
- Names and titles as forms of objectification
- Making public
- The institutionalization of symbolic capital
- The two bodies
- Consensual imaginanes
- Lecture of 16 June 1982 p. 118
- Acting 'in the name of...'
- On delegation
- The state and perspectivism
- The problem of the truth of the social world
- Validation by consensus or objective evidence
- Situating the Course on General Sociology in the work of Pierre Bourdieu p. 134 / Patrick Champagne and Julien Duval.
- Notes:
- "Lectures at the Collége de France, 1981-1982" --title page.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781509513277
- 1509513272
- OCLC:
- 1044772609
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