布迪厄研究手册

1.the legacy of Pierre Bourdieu

These critical essays bring together prominent scholars in the social sciences to consider the diverse nature of the legacy of Pierre Bourdieu in contemporary social theory. In offering a range of perspectives on the continuing relevance of Bourdieu’s sociology, the essays of this volume examine Bourdieu’s relationship to both classical and contemporary social theory. This collection constructs an intellectual bridge between French-speaking and English-speaking accounts of Bourdieu’s work.

2.Bourdieu and Historical Analysis

The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had a broader theoretical agenda than is generally acknowledged. Introducing this innovative collection of essays, Philip S. Gorski argues that Bourdieu’s reputation as a theorist of social reproduction is the misleading result of his work’s initial reception among Anglophone readers, who focused primarily on his mid-career thought. A broader view of his entire body of work reveals Bourdieu as a theorist of social transformation as well. Gorski maintains that Bourdieu was initially engaged with the question of social transformation and that the question of historical change not only never disappeared from his view, but re-emerged with great force at the end of his career.
The contributors to Bourdieu and Historical Analysis explore this expanded understanding of Bourdieu’s thought and its potential contributions to analyses of large-scale social change and historical crisis. Their essays offer a primer on his concepts and methods and relate them to alternative approaches, including rational choice, Lacanian psychoanalysis, pragmatism, Latour’s actor-network theory, and the “new” sociology of ideas. Several contributors examine Bourdieu’s work on literature and sports. Others extend his thinking in new directions, applying it to nationalism and social policy. Taken together, the essays initiate an important conversation about Bourdieu’s approach to sociohistorical change.

3.Sociological biography and socialisation process a dispositionalist-contextualist conception

Within a dispositionalist-contextualist conception of socialisation, the sociological biography seeks first and foremost to reconstruct the successive or parallel socialising experiences through which the respondent has been constituted and which have settled in them in the form of schemes or dispositions to believe, see, feel and act. In our societies, the family comes first in the order of experiences and that are based the subsequent experiences (notably educational and professional experiences). But if family is the first ‘psychological agency of society’, it is not the only one and individuals experience various other ‘agencies’ throughout their lives (school, the professional environment, the political party, the union, the religious institution, the cultural association, the sports club, etc.). Therefore, only the sociological biography allows us to grasp the successive or combined effect of the different socialisation fr ameworks frequented by individuals. Finally, sociological biography enables the establishment of elements of what can be called the ‘existential issue’ of each individual, which the biographical path has gradually contributed to form.