The State Nobility : Elite Schools in the Field of Power / Pierre Bourdieu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bourdieu, Pierre, Author.

Contributor:

Wacquant, Loïc J. D., Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this major new work, Pierre Bourdieu examines the distinctive forms of power—political, intellectual, bureaucratic, and economic—by means of which contemporary societies are governed. What kinds of competence are claimed by the bureaucrats and technocrats who govern us? And how do those who govern gain our recognition and acquiescence? Bourdieu examines in detail the work of consecration that is carried out by elite education systems—in France by the grande écoles, in the United States by the Ivy League schools, and in England by Oxford and Cambridge. Today, this "state nobility" has at its disposal an unprecedented range of powers and distinctive titles to justify its privilege. Bourdieu shows how it is the heir—structural and sometimes genealogical—of the noblesse de robe, which, in order to consolidate its position in relation to other forms of power, had to construct the modern state and the republican myths, meritocracy, and civil service that went along with it. Combining ethnographic description, historical documentation, statistical analysis, and theoretical argument, Bourdieu develops a wide-ranging and highly original account of the forms of power and governance that have come to prevail in our society today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Translator's Note

PROLOGUE Social Structures and Mental Structures

PART I Academic Forms of Classification

1 Dualistic Thinking and the Conciliation of Opposites

2 Misrecognition and Symbolic Violence

Appendices

Appendix 1 The Social Origins of Concours General Prizewinners (1966-1986)

Appendix 2 Election and Overselection

Appendix 3 Prominent Themes from Two Prizewinning Essays

Appendix 4 A Sketch of Four Prizewinners

PART II The Ordination

1 The Production of aN obility

2 A Rite of Institution

3 The Ambiguities of Competence

Appendix Accounts of Life in Preparatory Classes and Grandes Ecoles

PART III The Field of the Grandes Écoles and its Transformations

1 A State of the Structure

2 A Structural History

Appendix 1 A Discourse of Celebration

Appendix 2 On Method

Appendix 3 Data Tables

Appendix 4 Blindness

PART IV The Field of Power and its Transformations

1 Forms of Power and their Reproduction

2 Establishment Schools and Power over the Economy

3 Transformations in the Structure of the Field of Power

Appendix 1 The Field of Economic Power in 1972 (Correspondence Analysis)

Appendix 2 Positions in the Field and Political Stances

Appendix 3 A Day in the Life of a VIP

Appendix 4 Elective Affinities, Institutionalized Connections, and the Circulation of Information

PART V State Power and Power over the State

STATE MAGIC

THE "BEROBED" AND THE INVENTION OF THE STATE

THE LENGTHENING OF THE CIRCUITS OF LEGITIMATION

Translator's Appendix

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-1542-1

OCLC:

1294425333