Politics and sociology : General sociology. Volume 5, Lectures at the Collège de France (1985-1986) / edited by Patrick Champagne and Julien Duval, with the collaboration of Franck Poupeau and Marie-Christine Rivière ; translated by Peter Collier

Author: Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002
Uniform Title: Sociologie générale. Volume 2. Selections. English
Additional Titles: General sociology. Volume 5, Lectures at the Collège de France (1985-1986) and Lectures at the Collège de France (1985-1986)
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ, USA : Polity Press, [2023]
Copyright Date: ©2023
Edition: English edition.
Physical Description: ix, 294 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Champagne, Patrick, Duval, Julien, and Collier, Peter, 1942-

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Sociologie générale ; v. 5.

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Translated from the French.

Summary

"This is the fifth and final volume based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline, and in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts which have come to define his distinctive intellectual approach.In this volume, Bourdieu develops his view of the social world as the site of a struggle for the legitimate vision of the world. The specific weapon used in these struggles is what Bourdieu calls symbolic capital, which is economic, cultural or social capital when perceived through suitable categories of perception. All forms of power seek to impose their own categories of perception in a way that is both recognised and misrecognised. This is how forms of power establish themselves as legitimate, because legitimacy is a force of recognition based on misrecognition, that is, recognised in a way that prevents us from recognising its arbitrariness.By rejecting the opposition between structuralist objectification and subjectivist." --

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9781509526727 hardback
1509526722 hardback

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First published in French as part of: Sociologie générale. Volume 2. Cours au Collège de France (1983-1986). [Paris] : Raisons d'agir : Seuil, 2016.
Fifth and last volume of the English edition of the French two-volume edition.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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