Politics and Sociology : General Sociology, Volume 5 (Hardcover)

Editorial Note


Acknowledgements



Lecture of 17 April 1986  

First session (lecture): recapitulation - Symbolic capital - Cognition and misrecognition - Symbolic power as fetish - Socialization through social structures - A political phenomenology of experience - Nostalgia for a lost paradise - From doxa to orthodoxy - Returning to symbolic power.
Second session (seminar): biography and social trajectory (1) - The prob-lem of the unity of the self - The unity of the self across different spaces - The self as foundation of the socially constituted individual - Curriculum vitae, cursus honorum, criminal record, school reports.



Lecture of 24 April 1986

First session (lecture): the fidès, a historical realization of symbolic capital - An ethnology of the unconscious - The examples of ethnicity and the designer label - The habitus as determination and as sensitivity.
Second session (seminar): biography and social trajectory (2) - Importing a literary break - Establishing consistency - The space of  biographical discourse - From the life story to the analysis of trajectories.




Lecture of 15 May 1986

First session (lecture): a dispositional solution - The independence of the habitus from the present - Prediction, protention and projection - Changing the habitus - Power - The petit-bourgeois relation to culture.
Second session (seminar): To the Lighthouse (1) - Fields as traps - A man-child - Men, oblates of the social world.



Lecture of 22 May 1986

First session (lecture): summary of previous lectures - Socialized individual and abstract individual - Habitus and the principle of choice - Mental structures and objective structures - The magical match of the body with the world - The false problem of responsibility - Coincidence of positions and dispositions - Amor fati.
Second session (seminar): To the Lighthouse (2) - Incorporating the politi-cal - Paternal power and the verdict effect - The somatization of social cri-ses - Metamorphosis and the founding experience of primordial power.




Lecture of 29 May 1986

First session (lecture): the division of labour in the production of representations - A theory of action - The conditions of rational decision - The problem as such does not exist - Deliberation as accident - A broader rationalism - Alternatives and the logic of the field.
 Second session (seminar): the field of power (1) - The field of power and differentiation of fields - The emergence of  universes ‘as such’ - Power over capital - Power and its legitimization.



Lecture of 5 June 1986

First session (lecture): eternal false problems - The alternative of mechanism and purposiveness, and the conditions of rationality - Scientific oppositions and political oppositions - The practical mastery of structures - Imposing the right point of view.
Second session (seminar): the field of power (2) - The example of the ‘capacities’ - Educational  system, numerus clausus and social reproduction - The search for stable forms of capital - The strategies of reproduction according to species of capital - Sociodicy and ideology



Lecture of 12 June 1986

First session (lecture): the space of positions and the space of stand-points - The representation of the social world at stake - A collective construction - A cognitive struggle - Making the implicit explicit - The specificity of the scientific field.
Second session (seminar): the field of power (3) - Boundaries of the fields and right of entry - The example of the literary field - Flow of capital and variations in the exchange rate - Establishing a new mode of reproduction - Maxwell’s demon.



Lecture of 19 June 1986

Practical struggles and struggles among theoreticians - The struggles of the professional explicators - Science of science and relativism.
Science as a social field - A rationalist relativism - The vulnerability of social science - The Gerschenkron effect - The problem of the existence of social classes - ‘Class’: a well-constructed fiction - Constructed classes and infra-representational classes - The constructivist phase.



Situating the Later Volumes of General Sociology in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu



Summary of Lectures of 1985-1986



Notes

Index