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Pierre Bourdieu (Blog 7)

This sociologist is very famous and it is very predectible that someone admire to him. Yes, I going to talk about Pierre Bourdieu.

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Bourdieu was born in 1930, was the only son of a farmer family in the south of France, place where their habitants speak occitane language, this thing marked Bourdieu's thinking about the marginality, feeling the contradictions of don't belong to the dominant culture. He study Philosophy at École Normale Supérieure, a very prestigious french university, and here continued to feel a marginal.


His life experience led to elaborate his Theory of Habitus, based in a practical sense with which we know the world, from our social position in the social structure and with our bodily strategies to face the life, a battlefield, managementing our capitals. For example, how the "personal" tastes are distributed in this positions and in a logic about social distinction.


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This is the map of tastes, from "Distinction, a social critique of the judgement of taste" (1979)


I admire him because Pierre Bourdieu stands against the theories made by intellectuals that assume the people thinks like they thinks, because they think like they think because they can. Instead of this, Bourdieu's theory aims to understand the differents way to live, to feel and to thinking the world with the bodily experience. And this led to Bourdieu to aims that youth is just a word, the public opinion doesn't exist, just for to name two. He says in a interview "All my work is destined to people that get the same trajectory and the same necessity to understand". 

That's all for today, I read you. 



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  1. Fernanda Mundaca20 de junio de 2019 a las 20:56

    Hello Cristian! I like your description about Pierre Bourdieu. I didn't know him. For me, I love Durkheim, because he talks about the specialization of work in industrialized society.

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  2. Cristian Fuentes Tobar16 de julio de 2019 a las 19:00

    Hi Fernanda, there is a film about/with Pierre Bourdieu that's called "Sociology is a fight sport" ("La sociología es un deporte de combate") that I recomend you if you have a time (because it last almost two hours).

    Cheers!

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