Pierre Bourdieu: Summarized Classics: SUMMARIZED CLASSICS

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

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The present volume covers the central axes of this discipline.
Among them, the reader will find an analysis of the following: Who Is Bourdieu, Some Properties Of The Fields, High Costume And High Culture, From The National Field To The International Field, Economy Of The Linguistic Market Exchanges, Scientific Field, among others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Oct 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201278304

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: SUMMARIZED CLASSICS

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PIERRE BOURDIEU: SUMMARIZED CLASSICS

First edition. October 1, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU.

ISBN: 979-8201278304

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Title Page

Copyright Page

Pierre Bourdieu: Summarized Classics

WHO IS BOURDIEU?

SOME PROPERTIES OF THE FIELDS

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SOME PROPERTIES OF THE FIELDS 7

HIGH CUSTOM AND HIGH CULTURE 11

CULTURAL CAPITAL, SCHOOL AND SOCIAL SPACE 15

CHAPTER 6 SOCIOLOGY AND DEMOCRACY 15

FROM THE NATIONAL FIELD TO THE INTERNATIONAL FIELD 23

ECONOMICS OF LANGUAGE EXCHANGES 31

THE LANGUAGE MARKET 33

THE SCIENTIFIC FIELD 39

NEOLIBERALISM: THE STRUGGLE OF EVERYONE AGAINST EVERYONE 59

SOCIAL SPACE AND THE GENESIS OF THE CLASSES 67

ABOUT TELEVISION 77

CHAPTER 1 THE PLATÓ AND ITS FRAMES 77

AN UNCOMFORTABLE SCIENCE 101

WHO IS BOURDIEU?

Bourdieu, Pierre (1930 -2002): French sociologist, combined economic analysis from Marxism with cultural and symbolic issues; his idea is that the social is determined by multiple causes, so that - although he takes the idea of class struggle from Marxism - he says that economic power, to reproduce itself, needs cultural and symbolic power. Analyzing the mechanisms of social inequality, he developed the concepts of habitus, capital and field, which constitute his most original contributions to the Social Sciences.

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. This 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 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 product appreciation 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, it becomes evident the existence of a form of struggle that implies consensus on what is being fought for 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