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Author |
: David L. Swartz |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2013-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226925028 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226925021 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals by : David L. Swartz
Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that symbolic power—the power to dominate—is solely symbolic. He emphasized that symbolic power helps create and maintain social hierarchies, which form the very bedrock of political life. By the time of his death in 2002, Bourdieu had become a leading public intellectual, and his argument about the more subtle and influential ways that cultural resources and symbolic categories prevail in power arrangements and practices had gained broad recognition. In Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals, David L. Swartz delves deeply into Bourdieu’s work to show how central—but often overlooked—power and politics are to an understanding of sociology. Arguing that power and politics stand at the core of Bourdieu’s sociology, Swartz illuminates Bourdieu’s political project for the social sciences, as well as Bourdieu’s own political activism, explaining how sociology is not just science but also a crucial form of political engagement.
Author |
: David L. Swartz |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226925013 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226925011 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals by : David L. Swartz
Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that symbolic power—the power to dominate—is solely symbolic. He emphasized that symbolic power helps create and maintain social hierarchies, which form the very bedrock of political life. By the time of his death in 2002, Bourdieu had become a leading public intellectual, and his argument about the more subtle and influential ways that cultural resources and symbolic categories prevail in power arrangements and practices had gained broad recognition. In Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals, David L. Swartz delves deeply into Bourdieu’s work to show how central—but often overlooked—power and politics are to an understanding of sociology. Arguing that power and politics stand at the core of Bourdieu’s sociology, Swartz illuminates Bourdieu’s political project for the social sciences, as well as Bourdieu’s own political activism, explaining how sociology is not just science but also a crucial form of political engagement.
Author |
: David L. Swartz |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226925005 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226925004 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals by : David L. Swartz
Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that symbolic power—the power to dominate—is solely symbolic. He emphasized that symbolic power helps create and maintain social hierarchies, which form the very bedrock of political life. By the time of his death in 2002, Bourdieu had become a leading public intellectual, and his argument about the more subtle and influential ways that cultural resources and symbolic categories prevail in power arrangements and practices had gained broad recognition. In Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals, David L. Swartz delves deeply into Bourdieu’s work to show how central—but often overlooked—power and politics are to an understanding of sociology. Arguing that power and politics stand at the core of Bourdieu’s sociology, Swartz illuminates Bourdieu’s political project for the social sciences, as well as Bourdieu’s own political activism, explaining how sociology is not just science but also a crucial form of political engagement.
Author |
: David Swartz |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 343 |
Release |
: 2012-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226161655 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022616165X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Culture & Power by : David Swartz
Pierre Bourdieu is one of the world's most important social theorists and is also one of the great empirical researchers in contemporary sociology. However, reading Bourdieu can be difficult for those not familiar with the French cultural context, and until now a comprehensive introduction to Bourdieu's oeuvre has not been available. David Swartz focuses on a central theme in Bourdieu's work—the complex relationship between culture and power—and explains that sociology for Bourdieu is a mode of political intervention. Swartz clarifies Bourdieu's difficult concepts, noting where they have been misinterpreted by critics and where they have fallen short in resolving important analytical issues. The book also shows how Bourdieu has synthesized his theory of practices and symbolic power from Durkheim, Marx, and Weber, and how his work was influenced by Sartre, Levi-Strauss, and Althusser. Culture and Power is the first book to offer both a sympathetic and critical examination of Bourdieu's work and it will be invaluable to social scientists as well as to a broader audience in the humanities.
Author |
: Matthew Eagleton-Pierce |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199662647 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199662649 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Symbolic Power in the World Trade Organization by : Matthew Eagleton-Pierce
Questions of power are central to understanding global trade politics and no account of the World Trade Organization (WTO) can afford to avoid at least an acknowledgment of the concept. A closer examination of power can help us to explain why the structures and rules of international commerce take their existing forms, how the actions of countries are either enabled or disabled, and what distributional outcomes are achieved. However, within conventional accounts, there has been a tendency to either view power according to a single reading - namely the direct, coercive sense - or to overlook the concept entirely, focusing instead on liberal cooperation and legalization. In this book, Matthew Eagleton-Pierce shows that each of these approaches betray certain limitations which, in turn, have cut short, or worked against, more critical appraisals of power in transnational capitalism. To expand the intellectual space, the book investigates the complex relationship between power and legitimation by drawing upon Pierre Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power. A focus on symbolic power aims to alert scholars to how the construction of certain knowledge claims are fundamental to, and entwined within, the material struggle for international trade. Empirically, the argument uncovers and plots the recent strategies adopted by Southern countries in their pursuit of a more equitable trading order. By bringing together insights from political economy, sociology, and law, Symbolic Power in the WTO not only enlivens and enriches the study of diplomatic practice within a major multilateral institution, it also advances the broader understanding of power in world politics.
Author |
: Loïc Wacquant |
Publisher |
: Polity |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2005-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745634876 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745634877 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics by : Loïc Wacquant
Pierre Bourdieu was a brilliant sociologist and social thinker; he was also an intensely political man whose work is of profound significance for rethinking democracy. This original volume presents and develops Bourdieu's distinctive contribution to the theory and practice of democratic politics. It explicates and illustrates his core concepts of political field and field of power, his historical model of the bureaucratic state, and his influential analyses of the practices and institutions involved in the paradoxical phenomenon of political representation - starting with the enigma of delegation, or what he called the "mystery of ministry." The fruitfulness of Bourdieu's approach is demonstrated in a series of integrated studies of voting, public opinion polls, party dynamics, class rule, and state-building, as well as by careful analyses of Bourdieu's own civic engagements and his theoretical treatment of the politics of reason and recognition in contemporary society. Charting the connections between Bourdieu's political views, the main nodes of his sociology of democratic representation, and the implications of this sociology for progressive civic thought and action, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across the gamut of disciplines as well as to citizens concerned with renewing struggles for social justice.
Author |
: Michael Burawoy |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 147 |
Release |
: 2019-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478007173 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478007176 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Symbolic Violence by : Michael Burawoy
In Symbolic Violence Michael Burawoy brings Pierre Bourdieu into an extended debate with Marxism—a tradition Bourdieu ostensibly avoided. While Bourdieu's expansive body of work stands as a critique of Marx's inadequate account of cultural domination, Burawoy shows how Bourdieu's eschewal and rejection of Marxism led him to miss out on a number of productive theoretical engagements. In eleven “conversations,” Burawoy outlines the intellectual and biographical parallels and divergences between Bourdieu and the work of preeminent Marxist thinkers. Among many topics, Burawoy examines Bourdieu's appropriation and silencing of Beauvoir and her theory of masculine domination; the commonalities as well as differences in Bourdieu's and Fanon's thought on colonialism and revolution; the extent to which Gramsci's theory of hegemony aligns with Bourdieu's notion of symbolic violence; and both how Freire and Bourdieu understood education as the site of oppression. In showing how Bourdieu has more in common with these thinkers than Bourdieu himself cared to admit, Burawoy offers a critical assessment of Bourdieu's work that illuminates its paradoxes and reaffirms its significance for the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Claire Kramsch |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2020-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108877763 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108877761 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Language as Symbolic Power by : Claire Kramsch
Language is not simply a tool for communication - symbolic power struggles underlie any speech act, discourse move, or verbal interaction, be it in face-to-face conversations, online tweets or political debates. This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to the topic of language and power from an applied linguistics perspective. It is clearly split into three sections: the power of symbolic representation, the power of symbolic action and the power to create symbolic reality. It draws upon a wide range of existing work by philosophers, sociolinguists, sociologists and applied linguists, and includes current real-world examples, to provide a fresh insight into a topic that is of particular significance and interest in the current political climate and in our increasingly digital age. The book shows the workings of language as symbolic power in educational, social, cultural and political settings and discusses ways to respond to and even resist symbolic violence.
Author |
: Pierre Bourdieu |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:320716860 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Language and Symbolic Power by : Pierre Bourdieu
Author |
: Pierre Bourdieu |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231082878 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231082877 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Field of Cultural Production by : Pierre Bourdieu
Analysis of art, literature and aesthetics