Forms of capital / Pierre Bourdieu ; edited by Patrick Champagne and Julien Duval with the collaboration of Franck Poupeu and Marie-Christine Revière ; translated by Peter Collier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002, author.

Contributor:

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002., editor.

Series:

General sociology ; Volume 3.

General sociology ; Volume 3

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Study and teaching (Higher)--France.

Sociology.

Capital.

Capitalism.

Sociology--Study and teaching (Higher).

France.

Physical Description:

ix, 380 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021.

Summary:

"One of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century introduces a key concept of his approach"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Lecture of 1 March 1984

First Session: (lecture): preamble on the teaching of sociology

Lector and auctor

The field-habitus duo

System, field and subfields

The field of the fields

The structure of distribution of specific capital

The institutionalization of the functioning of the field

Second Session: (seminar): the hit parade of the intellectuals (1)

A symbolic coup

The overrepresentation of fuzzy categories and the question of competence

Instituting the judges

Adopting a standpoint on the standpoints adopted

The universalization of individual judgements

Producers for producers and producers for non-producers

Lecture of 8 March 1984

First Session: the hit parade of the intellectuals (2)

Wrong questions and right answers

The models of the market and the trial

Concrete individual and constructed individual

The issues of visibility and titles

Inventing the jury

Position of the journalistic subfield within the field of cultural production

Defining the rules of the game

Second Session: the hit parade of the intellectuals (3)

The model of the trial

The model of the market

Value judgement

Establishing differences

Producing the producers

Lecture of 15 March 1984

First Session: (lecture): preamble on social understanding

Does a field have a starting point?

Rules and regularities. The process of objectification

The interest of following the rules

The spontaneist position and the continuist position

The passage from discontinuous universes to continuous universes

Second Session: (seminar): the hit parade of the intellectuals (4)

The margin of liberty of symbolic action

The duplication effect of symbolic power

The specificity of symbolic action

Political prediction

Lecture of 22 March 1984

First Session: (lecture): responses to questions

Interest in the wider sense

Is the subfield a simple change of scale?

Is business a field?

The field as subject of social actions

Second Session: (seminar); Kafka's The Trial

The Trial and the search for identity

Recognition in weakly objectified fields

Lecture of 29 March 1984

First Session: (lecture): the model of the gambler

Immanent tendencies to reproduction in the social world

Comparison between societies and continuity of the social world

Differentiating between fields and objectification of capital

Violence and its euphemization

Second Session: (seminar): Kafka's The Trial (2)

The manipulation of the illusio and chance

Power and time

Lecture of 19 April 1984

First Session: (lecture): the field and species of capital

The relation to time

Species and forms of capital

The three forms of cultural capital

Human capital and cultural capital

Cultural capital as incorporated capital. Parenthesis on philosophy and the social world

Second Session: (seminar): Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett

The timescale of someone waiting for nothing

The social world as self-evident

Principles of continuity of the social world in different societies

Lecture of 26 April 1984

First Session: (lecture): educational space and forms

Distribution of capital and profits of distinction

Cultural capital objectified and appropriated

Means of production and cultural capital

The legitimate appropriation of cultural works

Second Session: (seminar): time and power. Acting on structures and acting on representations

Symbolic action

The reassuring role of the rule

Time and the exercise of power

Lecture of 3 May 1984

First Session: (lecture): Sartre and `canned thought'

Thinking the trivial

Reappropriating cultural capital

Generic alienation and specific alienation

The institutionalized state of cultural capital

Second Session: (seminar): delegation and representation (1). The delegation relation

The representation relation

The fable of the Societe des agreges

Lecture of 10 May 1984

First Session: (lecture): educational qualifications, discontinuities and bureaucracy

`Information capital'

Codification and logical control

The officialization effect of formalization

Vis formae, the force of form

Second Session: (answers to questions and seminar): towards a history of the technologies of thought

Delegation and representation (2)

The structural hypocrisy of the delegate

Homology and the coup double

Constituents and representative bodies

Lecture of 17 May 1984

First Session: (lecture): the effect of forms

An analysis of discipline

The ambiguity of discipline

An ethnocentrism of the universal

Second Session: (answers to questions and seminar): the problem of historical parallels

The coherence of the lectures

Historical parallels (`that reminds me of.')

The false eternity of academic debates

Situating the Third and Later Volumes of General Sociology in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu / Julien Duval.

Notes:

"Lectures at the College de France (1983-1984)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002. Sociologie générale. Volume 3. English, editor.

ISBN:

9781509526703

1509526706

OCLC:

1193558012