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• Introduction: Sociology and coloniality
• The decolonial challenge to sociology
• Beyond intellectual imperialism : indigenous and autonomous sociologies
• Walking while asking questions : towards a 'sociology in conversations'
• Conclusion: Sociology and the decolonial option.

"An action plan for a globally equitable sociology"-- Provided by publisher.

In this invitation to "concept-driven" sociology, defying the conventional split between "theory" and "methodology" (as well as between "quantitative" and "qualitative" research), Eviatar Zerubavel introduces a yet unarticulated "Simmelian" method of theorizing specifically designed to reveal fundamental, often hidden social patterns. Insisting that it can actually be taught, he examines the theoretico-methodological process (revolving around the epistemic and analytical acts of focusing, generalizing, "exampling, " and analogizing) by which concept-driven researchers can distill generic social patterns from the culturally, historically, and domain-specific contexts in which they encounter them empirically. Disregarding conventionally noted substantive variability in order to uncover conventionally disregarded formal commonalities, Generally Speaking draws on cross-cultural, cross-historical, cross-domain, and cross-level analogies in an effort to reveal formal parallels across disparate contexts. Using numerous examples from culturally and historically diverse contexts and a wide range of social domains while also disregarding scale, Zerubavel thus introduces a pronouncedly transcontextual "generic" sociology.
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"This book offers an introduction to critical thinking for sociologists. Critical thinking involves the evaluation of arguments. Because sociologists tend to use particular forms of argumentation, it is helpful to consider how such arguments might be evaluated. Taking these matters into consideration can improve sociological arguments"-- Provided by publisher.

This book explores an eminently human phenomenon: our capacity to engage with the possible, to go beyond what is present, visible, or given in our existence. Possibility studies is an emerging field of research including topics as diverse as creativity, imagination, innovation, anticipation, counterfactual thinking, wondering, the future, social change, hope, agency, and utopia. The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory contributes to this wide field by developing a sociocultural account of the possible grounded in the notions of difference, position, perspective, dialogue, action, and culture. This theory aims to offer conceptual, methodological, and practical tools for all those interested in studying human possibility and cultivating it in education, at the workplace, in everyday life, and in society.
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"Does the idea of human rights fail to protect the most vulnerable among humans: children?"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction. Logique d'un cadre d'analyse
• Conceptualiser un changement configurationnel (1)
• Trois questions d'épistémologie générale
• Le paradigme sociologique
• Conceptualiser un changement configurationnel (2)
• Conceptualiser un changement configurationnel (3)
• Quid de la philosophie ?
• La sociologie comme science
• Après Kant
• Peut-on rester des "bachelardiens" heureux ?
• Conceptualiser un changement configurationnel (4)
• Comment penser la "naissance" de la sociologie ?
• Sociologie historique et épistémologie sociogénétique de la sociologie
• Les sciences humaines et les rêves
• Appendice I. Quelques réflexions sur une controverse
• La naissance d'une conception sociologique du "temps" entre innovation scientifique et luttes académiques (1901-1945)
• La "durée", l'heure conventionnelle et le "temps social"
• Mesure du temps et "être-au-monde"
• Enjeux épistémologiques fondamentaux et rivalités de statut
• Une "conversion de philosophes à l'histoire" ?
• Bloch, Halbwachs, et les fondamentaux de la pensée sociale-historique
• Quel paradoxe ?
• Refonder la "philosophie" et la "science de l'homme" ?
• Un nouveau "point de vue"
• Refonder la "raison" ?
• Sociologie vs criticisme
• Une victoire à la Pyrrhus ?
• Genèses, sanctions et ruptures
• L'antinomie individu/société dans les sciences humaines et sociales
• Sémantique historique de "vrais faux" concepts antonymes
• Un processus d'individualisation ?
• Usages d'une antinomie dans le champ intellectuel français autour de 1900
• Du déterminisme biologique au déterminisme social
• Un régime, des sciences
• Dans l'étau d'une langue scientifique
• Des stratégies "logiques"... et payantes
• Vers un "nettoyage de printemps"
• Appendice II. Le cas de la neuroscience sociale
• Le rêve avorté du baron Tosti
• Le prix à payer pour "devenir un parfait psychologue"
• "Psychologie sociale" et ordre du discours
• Une double ambition : dialectique scientifique et vie de chercheur
• La pensée sociologique de Jean Jaurès
• Appendice III. Sociologie et socialisme
• Appendice IV. Durkheim et la "socialisation"
• Excellence sociologique et "vocation d'hétérodoxie" : Mai 68 et la rupture Aron-Bourdieu
• Le modèle aronien de l'excellence sociologique (1955-1968)
• Excellence sociologique et utopie communautaire
• Etudes éliasiennes
• Dynamique de champ et "événements" (1930-1945)
• La matrice d'un projet intellectuel
• Le défi d'une analyse configurationnelle globale des transformations du "psychique" et du "social"
• Les enjeux d'une réception
• Une occasion manquée
• La "grande oeuvre" méconnue
• Traduction non scientifique et réception-annexion
• Un cas de non réception : Qu'est-ce que la sociologie ? (1981)
• Traduction scientifique et réception académique
• Une sociologie "post-philosophique" ?
• "Trop tard ou trop tôt"...
• Entre auto-distanciation et hantise du classement
• Trois détours philosophiques
• Comment rompre avec la philosophie universitaire ?
• Refonder la sociologie de la connaissance et des sciences
• La théorie sociologique des sciences comme science des sciences

• La vraie nature du "social"
• Un nouvel espace des possibles
• Un sociologue à contretemps ?
• Innovation scientifique et tradition
• Appendice V. La sociologie des sciences selon Elias
• Les êtres humains comme processus
• La langue éliasienne
• Avec Freud, et au-delà
• Processus de civilisation et "bien-être" : la quête de l'équilibre ?
• Un problème personnel
• Vers une sociologie des "troubles d'époque"
• Progrès cognitif et progrès civilisateur.

"Après la philosophie entend clore une vaste enquête destinée à éclairer aussi bien la naissance que le statut épistémologique de la sociologie. Cette enquête vise ainsi à dégager l'existence d'un paradigme sociologique unifié, par-delà la pluralité des manières de faire de la sociologie (statistique, ethnographie, analyse des processus de longue durée, etc.). Émile Durkheim, en prêtant à la sociologie une triple vocation (viser une science sociale intégrée, contribuer à l'élaboration d'une théorie générale de la connaissance et nourrir une image scientifique de l'humanité et du monde), est le véritable fondateur de ce paradigme. Norbert Elias, ensuite, a beaucoup oeuvré pour clarifier le domaine d'étude de la sociologie : à savoir des sociétés en développement constituées d'êtres humains interdépendants par nature et selon des dispositifs de contrainte spécifiques. Avant que Pierre Bourdieu ne parachève le paradigme en plaçant la "réflexivité" au coeur de l'habitus du sociologue. Partant, la sociologie a très largement assumé et redéfini, en lien avec la psychologie et la biologie, les fonctions naguère attribuées à la philosophie par Kant, consacrant ainsi l'ambition théorique et épistémologique d'un au-delà de la philosophie."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction : La sociologie, encore (l'époque)
• Rendre la société aux acteurs
• La "société" ne peut plus être l'objet de la sociologie
• Rapports sociaux et configurations sociales
• De la première à la seconde modernité
• De la globalisation des flux à la cosmopolitisation des rapports sociaux
• Changer de paradigme : de la domination au pouvoir
• Paradigme de la domination : une réduction des causes
• La société comme domination nécessaire et fonctionnelle : la sociologie classique
• L'idéologie des dominants comme mystcation : la sociologie critique
• La modernité comme domination : sociologie de la catastrophe
• La résistance marginale à la domination : sociologie des subalternes
• Paradigme du pouvoir : augmentation des acteurs et des réalités
• Les rapports de pouvoir construisent et instituent l'ordinaire de la réalité
• Les rapports de pouvoir sont vulnérables
• Rendre la domination aux acteurs
• Faire ensemble de la sociologie dans le monde
• Comprendre la critique postcoloniale
• La décolonialité du pouvoir comme émancipation de la domination occidentale ?
• Refaire de la sociologie ensemble : sociologies connectées des savoirs situés
• Outils communs et points de vue sociologiques situés
• Conclusion : La sociologie, encore (le monde)
• Références bibliographiques.

"Plus qu'un livre de théorie sociologique, Éric Macé nous propose un manuel de survie. Comment continuer à faire de la sociologie lorsque son objet central, inventé au XIXe siècle - "la société moderne" - est débordé par la mondialisation des interdépendances, la remise en cause des évidences occidentales, la catastrophe environnementale annoncée ? Comment continuer à réduire la réalité du monde en termes de domination et de reproduction sociale alors que dans la modernité et sa crise, c'est plutôt la question des changements, pour le meilleur comme pour le pire, qui est au coeur de la vie sociale ? Ce court essai propose, en alternative, une sociologie augmentée" capable de décrire, de comprendre et d'expliquer une réalité beaucoup plus large ce qu'elle pensait au moment de sa fondation."--Page 4 of cover.

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 A happy childhood "under such circumstances" -Pozna (1925-1932)
• Chapter 2 A pupil like no other - Pozna (1932-1939)
• Chapter 3 The fate of a war refugee (1939 -1944): Poznan - Molodeczna
• Chapter 4 Russian Exodus- 1941-1943 : Gorki and the forest
• Chapter 5 "Holy War"- 1943-1945
• Chapter 6 Officer of the Internal Security Corps, 1945-1953
• Chapter 7 "A man in a socialist society." Warsaw 1947-1953
• Chapter 8 Young Scholar's Life - 1953-1957
• Chapter 9 Years of hope - (1957-1967)
• Chapter 10 Bad romance with the Security Police
• Chapter 11 The "Year 1968"
• Chapter 12 Holy Land
• Chapter 13 British Professor
• Chapter 14 An Intellectual at Work
• Chapter 15
• Global Thinker
• Conclusion Legacy
• Appendix Working on Bauman Notes Bibliography.
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Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of 'liquid modernity', Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an intellectual talisman for young people everywhere. He was one of those rare scholars who, grey-haired and in his eighties, had his finger on the pulse of the youth. This is the first comprehensive biography of Bauman's life and work. Izabela Wagner returns to Bauman's native Poland and recounts his childhood in an assimilated Polish Jewish family and the school experiences shaped by anti-Semitism. Bauman's life trajectory is typical of his generation and social group: the escape from Nazi occupation and Soviet secondary education, communist engagement, enrolment in the Polish Army as a political officer, participation in the WW II and the support for the new political regime in the post-war Poland. Wagner sheds new light on the post-war period and Bauman's activity as a KBW political officer. His eviction in 1953 from the military ranks and his academic career reflect the dynamic context of Poland in 1950s and 1960s. His professional career in Poland was abruptly halted in 1968 by the anti-Semitic purges. Bauman became a refugee again - leaving Poland for Israel, and then settling down in Leeds in the UK in 1971. His work would flourish in Leeds, and after his retirement in 1991 he entered a period of enormous productivity which propelled him onto the international stage as one of the most widely read and influential social thinkers of our time. Wagner's biography brings out the complex connections between Bauman's life experiences and his work, showing how his trajectory as an 'outsider' forced into exile by the anti-Semitic purges in Poland has shaped his thinking over time. Her careful and thorough account will be the standard biography of Bauman's life and work for years to come.
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• 1. Introduction--
• Part 1: Foundations--
• 2. Epistemology: Applied Rationalism and Reflexivity--
• 3. The Human Condition: Misrecognition and Relationalism--
• 4. Human Action: Practice and Habitus-- Part II: Social Structures--
• 5. Fields: The Basics--
• 6. Three Major Spaces: Class, Sex, 'Origins'--
• 7. The Field of Power and Micro-Fields--
• 8. Multiple Field Membership-- Part III: Permanence and Change--
• 9. Historical Sociology: Centralisation, Unification, Differentiation--
• 10. Education and Social Reproduction--
• 11. Global Social Relations--
• 12. Epilogue: Sociology After Bourdieu.
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Pierre Bourdieu was the most influential sociologist of the late 20th century. The framework he developed continues to inspire countless researchers across the globe and provokes intense debates long after his death. Novel concepts, innovative applications and countless elaborations spring up every day, bulking out and shaping a distinct, if not always entirely consistent, body of work that might be characterised as a recognisable tradition. For those coming to Bourdieu for the first time, therefore, and interested in using his ideas in their own research, it no longer makes sense to confine oneself to the ideas of the man himself. An overview of the varied ways his concepts and arguments have been deepened and updated to make sense of new times or to fill certain gaps, and how insights on seemingly disconnected topics weave together into a bigger picture, is not just desirable but essential. Bourdieu and After aims to provide exactly this overview. Working closely with Bourdieu's own writings, but also covering a wide range of research and literature inspired by him, it aims to guide the reader through the key principles, the major and minor concepts and the concrete findings of Bourdieusian sociology as clearly and comprehensively as possible. It explains the difficult and often overlooked philosophical foundations, walks through the logic of famous terms like 'field', 'habitus' and 'capital' and demonstrates how they have been or can be used to provide powerful accounts of colonialism, the emergence of nation states and the rise of global social relations. It covers topics that Bourdieu was famous for analysing, like class and educational inequality, yet also traverses subjects on which he said little but that others influenced by him have tackled in depth, such as ethnicity, sexuality and family. Along the way Atkinson seeks to undermine some of the common criticisms levelled at Bourdieu while identifying remaining gaps and limitations. Rather than simply recognising the problems, however, Atkinson proposes possible solutions too - solutions that are facilitated, he argues, by characterising Bourdieusian sociology as what he calls 'relational phenomenology'.
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• List of Illustrations ix Cast of Characters xi Preface xvii Introduction
• 1
• 1. The Fundacion del Caribe in Cordoba
• 29
• 2. Archives and Repertoires
• 46
• 3. Participation
• 66
• 4. Critical Recovery
• 94
• 5. Systematic Devolution
• 130
• 6. Engagement and Reflection
• 169
• 7. Fals Borda's Legacy
• 197 Notes
• 233 References Cited
• 243 Index.
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In the early 1970s, a group of Colombian intellectuals led by the pioneering sociologist Orlando Fals Borda created a research-activist collective called La Rosca de Investigacion y Accion Social (Circle of Research and Social Action). Combining sociological and historical research with a firm commitment to grassroots social movements, Fals Borda and his colleagues collaborated with indigenous and peasant organizations throughout Colombia. In Cowards Don't Make History Joanne Rappaport examines the development of participatory action research on the Caribbean coast, highlighting Fals Borda's rejection of traditional positivist research frameworks in favor of sharing his own authority as a researcher with peasant activists. Fals Borda and his colleagues inserted themselves as researcher-activists into the activities of the National Association of Peasant Users, coordinated research priorities with its leaders, studied the history of peasant struggles, and, in collaboration with peasant researchers, prepared accessible materials for an organizational readership, thereby transforming research into a political organizing tool. Rappaport shows how the fundamental concepts of participatory action research as they were framed by Fals Borda continue to be relevant to engaged social scientists and other researchers in Latin America and beyond.
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"Cultura y Corazón is a cultural practice to research that requires a long term compromiso/commitment to community-based and engaged research methodologies. This book presents case studies in the fields of education and health that recognize and integrates communities' values, culture, and funds of knowledge in the research process"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: Data/theory
• Beyond method
• Decoding social forms
• Unintended consequences
• Actor-networks
• Collective representations
• Symbolic power
• Theoretical I/O
• Conclusion: Theory/data

The datafication of our world offers huge challenges and opportunities for social science. The 'data-drivenness' of computational research can occur at the expense of theoretical reflection and interpretation. Additionally, it can be difficult to reconcile the 'quantitative' dimensions of big data with the 'qualitative' sensibilities needed for its understanding. At the same time, this opens up possibilities for reimagining key principles of social inquiry. In this experimental and provocative book, Simon Lindgren argues that a hybrid approach to data and theory must be developed in order to make sense of today's ambivalent, turbulent, and media-saturated political landscape. He pushes for the development of a critical science of data, joining the interpretive theoretical and ethical sensibilities of social science with the predictive and prognostic powers of data science and computational methods. In order for theories and research methods to be more useful and relevant, they must be dismantled and put together in new, alternative, and unexpected ways. Data Theory is essential reading for social scientists and data scientists, as well as students taking courses in social theory and data, digital methods, big data, and data and society.
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• Introduction: Data Theory
• 1 Beyond Method
• 2 Decoding Social Forms
• 3 Unintended Consequences
• 4 Actor-Networks
• 5 Collective Presentations
• 6 Symbolic Power
• 7 Theoretical I/O Conclusion: Theory/Data References Index.
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The datafication of our world offers huge challenges and opportunities for social science. The 'data-drivenness' of computational research can occur at the expense of theoretical reflection and interpretation. Additionally, it can be difficult to reconcile the 'quantitative' dimensions of big data with the 'qualitative' sensibilities needed for its understanding. At the same time, this opens up possibilities for reimagining key principles of social inquiry. In this experimental and provocative book, Simon Lindgren argues that a hybrid approach to data and theory must be developed in order to make sense of today's ambivalent, turbulent, and media-saturated political landscape. He pushes for the development of a critical science of data, joining the interpretive theoretical and ethical sensibilities of social science with the predictive and prognostic powers of data science and computational methods. In order for theories and research methods to be more useful and relevant, they must be dismantled and put together in new, alternative, and unexpected ways. Data Theory is essential reading for social scientists and data scientists, as well as students taking courses in social theory and data, digital methods, big data, and data and society.
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• Introduction. Le fait moral
• Reprises critiques
• Les racines philosophiques
• La représentation
• Anomie, solidarisme
• Conclusion. Traiter la crise
• Annexe : "Remarques sur une question débattue : les origines de la sociologie".

"Cet ouvrage entend montrer que si Durkheim a eu pour projet d'achever l'émancipation de la sociologie vis-à-vis de la tradition philosophique, les préoccupations proprement philosophiques et tout particulièrement morales et pédagogiques ne l'ont cependant pas quitté. C'est sans doute dans des présupposés d'ordre philosophique que s'enracine l'ambition sociologique elle-même. La (re)naissance du projet sociologique exprime la dette de Durkheim à l'égard de Saint-Simon et de Comte, avec lesquels, malgré les divergences, Durkheim n'a jamais rompu ses attaches."--Page 4 of cover.

• Health psychology
• Health promotion and disease prevention
• Aging and quality of life
• Nutrition and exercise
• Behavioral cardiology
• Behavioral oncology
• Behavioral orthopedics and sports medicine
• Sexual and reproductive health
• Adolescent and women's health
• Chronic disease, pain, and disability
• Psychoneuroimmunology
• Stress and coping
• HIV/AIDS
• Public health
• Epidemiology
• Healthcare policy and administration
• Genetics and genomics as they apply to risk factors and morbidity
• Complementary and alternative medicine
• Eating disorders, including obesity
• Substance abuse and addictive behavior (alcohol, drugs, tobacco)
• Depression, anxiety, other mental health issues
• Behavioral medicine education and training
• Behavioral medicine research methodology, design, implementation, interpretation, and reporting.

From Neil Schneiderman's Foreword: Because behavioral medicine has been constructed based on the understanding of relationships among behavior, psychosocial processes, and sociocultural contexts, the field is well positioned to take a leadership role in informing future health care policies. The field of behavioral medicine appears to have a bright, important future.... A small sampling of entries from Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine: Abuse, child; Active coping; Adherence; Adrenaline; AIDS; Back pain; Behavioral medicine; Benefit-risk estimation; Binge eating; Bogalusa Heart Study; Cachexia; Cancer prevention; Cancer, testicular; Children's Health Study; Chronobiology; Coping strategies; Database development and management; Death, assisted; Developmental disabilities; Diabetes; Disparities; Eating disorders; Ecosocial theory; Effect modification; End-of-life care; Epigenetics; Expressive writing and health; Fall risk behavior; Family practice/medicine; Family, relationships; Fatigue; Foot care; Functional somatic syndromes; Galvanic skin response ; Gender differences ; Gene-environment interaction; Genetic polymorphisms ; Genital herpes ; Hamilton Anxiety Scale; Headaches, types of; Health systems; Hearing loss; Heart failure; Heart rate; Illness behavior; Immune function; Insomnia; Integrative medicine; Ischemic heart disease; Kaposi sarcoma; Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Study; Learned helplessness; Lifespan; Lifestyle, sedentary; Lipid abnormalities; Loneliness; Lung function; Magnetic resonance imaging; Maternal stress; Mean (average); Medication compliance; Methodology; Mini Mental State Examination; National Cancer Institute; National Children's Study; Negative affect; Neuroendocrine activation; Nigh shift workers and health; Obesity; Occupational therapy; Organ transplantation; Osteopenia/osteoporosis; Oxytocin; Pain; Pain anxiety; Palliative care; Panic attack; Physical activity interventions; Placebo effect; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Racism; Randomized clinical trial; Regression analysis; Resilience; Risk perception; Risky behavior; Secondary prevention; Selye, Hans; Self-medication; Self-monitoring; Stress test; Successful aging; Tachycardia; Theory of planned behavior; Therapy, physical; Tinnitus; Twin studies; Unipolar depression; Usual care; Validity; Vasoconstriction; Vassopressin; Verbal Rating Scale; Weiss, Stephen M.; Women's health; Women's Health Initiative; Worry; Wound healing; Yoga; Zung Depression Inventory.

• Contents
• Lecture of 5 October 1982 The retrospective illusion and the unreality of theory in research - A work of axiomatisation - Scientific concepts - The fundamental questions - Realist definition and interactionist definition - Metaphysical requirements for sociology - Iron Filings
• Lecture of 12 October 1982 The double life of the social - The process of objectification and incorporation of the social - Moving beyond the opposition between subjectivism and objectivism. - Scholarly understanding and practical understanding - The examples of reading and the work of art - Programme of future lectures and questions from the audience
• Lecture of 19 October 1982 Sense without consciousness - The mechanistic error and the intellectualist error - The temptation of the sociologist as king - Intellectual obstacles to the knowledge of the gnoseologia inferior - The habitus as orthe doxa
• Lecture of 2 November 1982 Positions and dispositions - The two states of history - A feel for the game - Practical knowledge - Investment in the game and illusio - Affective transference of the domestic libido, and conformism - Critique of the economic discourse - The economic conditions of economic practices
• Lecture of 9 November 1982 Habituality in Husserl - Decision theory in economics - Avoiding mechanism and purposiveness - The theory of the machine - The ontological power of language - Popular culture and popular language - Marxist teleology - The reification and personification of the collective. - The solution of the habitus
• Lecture of 16 November 1982 The adaptation of expectation to opportunity - Avoiding purposiveness- Interiorising the social - Incorporating necessity - Rites of institution - The call to order: the example of the relation of the family to the school - Social relations in the enquiry relationship - Surreptitious persuasion, symbolic violence - The paradox of continuity - Critique of the scholarly relation
• Lecture of 23 November 1982 A double-voiced discourse - Looking scholarly - Where is the sociologist coming from? - Sociology in the space of disciplines - The unconscious structures of the hierarchy of disciplines - Philosophy / sociology / history - Epistemological struggles, social struggles - Finding out what sociology does
• Lecture of 30 November 1982 Sociology as taking liberty/ies - Positions, dispositions and stances - Sociological bodies and academic styles - Positions attained and positions to attain - Mental structures and objective structures - Transformations of the field: the case of the university system - The refraction of external constraints - Strategies of struggle - The boundaries of the field - The intellectual field
• Lecture of 7 December 1982
• The structural mode of thinking - From symbolic systems to social relations - Parenthesis on the genesis of a corpus of knowledge - The field of forces and the field of struggles - Thinking a social position - How to construct a relational space? - The distribution of capital and the different structures - The inter-fields - Return to the structure of the distribution of capital - The interdependence of field and capital - The major kinds of capital - Conversion of the kinds of capital
• Lecture of 14 December 1982 A manner of thinking - The field and the statistical aggregate - The concept of the field (1): theoretical itinerary - The concept of the field (2): practical itinerary Field and milieu - Field and interaction - Field and network - Field and positions - Field and representation of the situation - The space of objective relations and the space of interactions - Field, group, population, individual - Representations and practical sense - Homologies between fields
• Lecture of 11 January 1983
• Physicalism and semiologism - Structure as crystallised history - Roulette and poker - The alternatives of income or trade - Amor fati. - The fertile terrain of the literary field - Art versus method: charismatic ideology and 'sociology of literature' - The field as mediation - Literary field and intertextuality - A chiasmatic structure - Automation, hierarchisation, institutionalisation - The intellectual in the field of cultural production
• Lecture of 18 January 1983
• The world upside-down - Field of power and field of cultural production - Conservative intellectual - The law of symbolic legitimation - Return to the struggles within the field of cultural production - The genesis of the invariants - The adaptation of offer to demand through homology of structure - The conquest of autonomy - The hierarchy of productions and the hierarchy of publics
• Lecture of 25 January 1983
• The economic logic of cultural enterprises - The truth of practice - The deferred profits of disinterestedness - The ambivalent profits of the market - The subversion of the rules of the field - Time-scales and 'personalities' - Clients and rivals: the mediation of the education system - Generations and revolutions - Modes of ageing and eternalisation - Overthrowing for the sake of overthrowing - Orientating the self in the space of possibilities - Trajectory / career and habitus - The impious dismantling of the fiction
• Appendix Summary of lectures, published in the Annuaire du College de France
• Notes
• Index.
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This is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College 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 focuses on two of his most important and influential concepts: habitus and field. For the social scientist, the object of study is neither the individual nor the group but the relation between these two manifestations of the social in bodies and in things: that is, the obscure, dual relation between the habitus - as a system of schemas of perception, appreciation and action - and the field as a system of objective relations and a space of possible actions and struggles aimed at preserving or transforming the field. The relation between the habitus and the field is a two-way process: it is a relation of conditioning, where the field structures the habitus, and it is also a relation of knowledge, with the habitus helping to constitute the field as a world that is endowed with meaning and value. The specificity of social science lies in the fact that it takes as its object of knowledge a reality that encompasses agents who take this same reality as the object of their own knowledge. An ideal introduction to some of Bourdieu's most important concepts and ideas, this volume will be of great interest to the many students and scholars who study and use Bourdieu's work across the social sciences and humanities, and to general readers who want to know more about the work of one of the most important sociologists and social thinkers of the 20th century.
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