Pierre Bourdieu

Abstract

Abstract

Setting out from the notion of Habitus and the theory of practice of Pierre Bourdieu this article treats his theories and his work, the history and the contemporary society conditioning the work, a theoretical positioning of the work, including the reception hereof not only by those who find it fruitful to work with or being inspired by the work, but also by those who find that the work is a misunderstanding, inconsistent, or useless for whatever reason.

The headings of the article signal the way the content is presented:

1. Sociological consequences of a biography

2. The position of Bourdieu in the philosophical and sociological domains

3. The works in short

4. The social world and the knowledge about this world

4. a. The spontaneous everyday conscience and the homemade theories

4.b. Science as a break with the immediate experience

4.c. Scientification of the practical sense?

4.d. Science as a break with science

4.e. The social space, the autonomous field, dispositions and positions, the symbolic violence, and habitus

5. The state and the educational system: on symbolic, economic, social and cultural capital

6. The relationistic way to construct a theory

7. Bourdieu and his critics

8. Bourdieu in Scandinavia

9. Key concepts