Pierre Bourdieu University of North Carolina at 布迪厄彼埃尔北卡罗来那大学.pptVIP

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Basic Facts… Born August 1, 1930 in Denguin, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France Grandfather was a sharecropper, and father was a postman, later postmaster Married Marie-Claire Brizard in 1962 Had three sons French sociologist Died January 23, 2002 in Paris, France Academic Career Studied philosophy in Paris at the école Normale Supérieure He worked as a teacher for a year Established sociological reputation with ethnographic research while in French Army during Algerian War of Independence (1958-62) 1964+ Director of Studies at the école Pratique des Hautes études 1968 until death, headed Centre de Sociologie Européenne, a research center founded by Aron 1975 edited sociological journal, “Actes de la recherche en sciences sociale,” with Luc Boltanski 1981 until retirement, Chair of Sociology at Collége de France (position formerly held by Raymond Aron et al.) Awards 1993 received “Medaille d’or du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)” 1996 received Goffman prize from UC Berkeley 2002 received Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Influences Gaston Bachelard Georges Canguilhem Emile Durkheim Norbert Elias Edmund Husserl Maurice Merleau-Ponty Claude Lévi-Strauss Blaise Pascal Ferdinand De Sassure Karl Marx Max Weber Thornstein Veblen Marcel Mauss Ludwig Wittgenstein Influences Cont’d… From Weber, importance of domination and symbolic systems in social life; social orders, which he would transform into a theory of fields From Marx, concept of capital with respect to social activity, not just economics From Durkheim, deterministic style From Mauss and Lévi-Strauss, structuralist style and the tendency of social structures to reproduce themselves From Merleau-Ponty and Husserl, focus on the body, action, and practical dispositions (manifested in his theory of habitus) Major Works Outline of a Theory of Practice, 1977 Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, 1984 Homo Academicus, 1988 The Logic of Pract