CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Gheorghiu, Iulia |
|---|---|
| Title | IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING BECAUSE IT COMES WITHOUT SAYING: ON PIERRE BOURDIEU S NOTION OF HABITUS |
| Summary | Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice, one of the most influential contemporary theories of practice, is meant as a theoretical, empirical as well as political project, accounting for the way social order is constituted. His explanation is premised on the reduction of social relations to power relations, envisioning a social order predicated on conflict. Although he aims at identifying the ultimate logic according to which social order is constituted, Bourdieu himself, much like the agents he theorizes, takes something for granted: while conflict is essential for Bourdieu, he takes it as a force driving action, and not as something that has to be explained. I argue that Bourdieu resorts to a circular rhetoric when discussing how misrecognition and symbolic violence function at the level of everyday practice through habitus, doxa and hexis. |
| Supervisor | Fabiani, Jean-Louis |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/gheorghiu_iulia.pdf |
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