Pierre Bourdieu: Selected Summaries: SELECTED SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

We have summarized the essentials of the following texts: "Some properties of the fields", "Haute couture and high culture", CULTURAL CAPITAL, SCHOOL AND SOCIAL SPACE, chapter 6, "From the national field to the international field", "Economy of exchanges linguistics ", among others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Nov 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393142188

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Pierre Bourdieu: Selected Summaries

SELECTED SUMMARIES

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PIERRE BOURDIEU: SELECTED SUMMARIES

First edition. November 18, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU.

ISBN: 978-1393142188

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SUMMARY OF TEXTS BY PIERRE BOURDIEU | INTRODUCTION

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SUMMARY OF TEXTS BY PIERRE BOURDIEU

INTRODUCTION

We propose to take a tour of some selected texts by the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.

We will analyze some of the key texts of this author, namely:

• Some properties of the fields

• Haute couture and high culture

• CULTURAL CAPITAL, SCHOOL AND SOCIAL SPACE, chapter 6

• From the national field to the international field

• Economics of linguistic exchanges

• The language market

• The scientific field

• Neoliberalism, the fight of all against all

• Social space and genesis of classes

• ABOUT TELEVISION, chapter 1

• Sociology and culture

• A science that bothers

SOME PROPERTIES OF THE FIELDS

There are general laws of the fields that apply equally to the most diverse fields. For example, in any field there is a struggle between the newcomer and the dominant.

A FIELD IS DEFINED BY DEFINING WHAT IS AT PLAY AND THE SPECIFIC INTERESTS, WHICH ARE IRREDUCTIBLE TO THOSE AT PLAY IN OTHER FIELDS

The structure of the field (more or less institutionalized power relations) is always at stake: the struggles that occur in the field put the specific authority into action.

SPEAKING OF SPECIFIC CAPITAL IS BECAUSE THE CAPITAL IS WORTH IN RELATION TO A DETERMINED FIELD

The right of admission to a field consists of recognizing the value of the game and knowing (as a practice, or know-how) certain principles of the game's operation.

The history of a field is usually always present. A sign of this are the biographers and philologists who are specialists in the field.

Those who oppose in a field have common things, but sometimes it is forgotten that there is an agreement among those who fight about what is worth fighting for. That agreement can be repressed in a state of doxa, that is to say that all the presuppositions that found and enable the game are tacitly present.

Despite all this, the strategies of philosophers (writers, etc.) are not limited to seeking specific gain, in a cynical way, without respect for symbolic capital, but rather there is an unconscious relationship between habitus and field.

Precisely this unconsciousness of habitus allows a theory that escapes from the errors of the finalist theory (the explanation of the action is always the same: the satisfaction of ends, which supposes to postulate very rational men. This is also called utilitarianism) and of the errors of the mechanistic theory according to which everything is determined SOCIALLY.

UTILITARIANISM IS THE ZERO DEGREE OF SOCIOLOGY

HIGH CUSTOM AND HIGH CULTURE

The hierarchy of research objects, one of the means by which social censorship is exercised, is also one of the most important objects in the sociology of knowledge.

The author proposes in this text the structural homology between the field of production of fashion goods and the field of production of legitimate cultural goods:

• STRUCTURE OF THE HIGH CUSTOM PRODUCTION FIELD: In a field (a space of objective relationships between individuals or institutions that compete for the same game) are those who dominate and those who have just joined. Among the former we find those who have greater power to build objects and within the latter those who seek a redefinition of the principles of production and appreciation of products and, at the same time, a devaluation of the capital possessed by the dominant . Within the same field, internal struggle only generates partial revolutions with the capacity to destroy the hierarchy, but not the game. Thus, the right and the left, the vanguard and the rear, change all the time of substantial content but remain structurally identical.

The class struggle, continuous and endless, is characterized by the dialectic of pretense and distinction that is at the beginning of the transformations of the field of production and that of consumption. This dialectic of competition involves constant struggle and an implicit recognition of supremacies. The beginning of the change in the field of production is, then, the fight for the monopoly that ends with the progressive fall of the loser.

In this field, succession affirms the charismatic power of the creator and the possibility of replacing the irreplaceable one. The firm changes its social nature and not its material nature.

• STRUCTURE OF THE CULTURE PRODUCTION FIELD: In the field of culture, the existence of a form of struggle that implies consensus on what is being fought for is evident and that, therefore, is integrative and tends to achieve permanence. The problem of succession in the field of artistic and literary creation or that of prophetic creation, then, is almost imperceptible since people are radically irreplaceable.

According to the author, what creates the power of the producer is the field, that is, the system of relationships as a whole, and what makes the system work is the collective belief. What creates value, the magic of the firm, is the collusion of all the agents of the goods production system.

CULTURAL CAPITAL, SCHOOL AND SOCIAL SPACE

CHAPTER 6 SOCIOLOGY AND DEMOCRACY

Bourdieu understands that sociology can help the formation of a democratic government and society, which ensure the general welfare.

DEMOCRACY IS OPPOSED TO DESPOTISM, DEMAGOGY AND TECNOCRACY, BECAUSE IN THE FIRST THE MASSES DECIDE AND IN THE OTHER POWERFUL MINORITIES THEY DECIDE FOR THE MASSES