{"product_id":"politics-and-sociology-general-sociology-volume-5-9781509526727","title":"Politics and Sociology: General Sociology, Volume 5","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the fifth and final volume based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline, and in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts which have come to define his distinctive intellectual approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this volume, Bourdieu develops his view of the social world as the site of a struggle for the legitimate vision of the world. The specific weapon used in these struggles is what Bourdieu calls symbolic capital, which is economic, cultural or social capital when perceived through suitable categories of perception. All forms of power seek to impose their own categories of perception in a way that is both recognised and misrecognised. This is how forms of power establish themselves as legitimate, because legitimacy is a force of recognition based on misrecognition, that is, recognised in a way that prevents us from recognising its arbitrariness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy rejecting the opposition between structuralist objectification and subjectivist constructivism, sociology can seek to grasp both the objective structure of social fields and the properly political strategies that agents use in order to establish and impose their viewpoint. And it can do so without forgetting that the whole world of social construction is oriented by the perception agents have of the social world, which depends on their position in the structures of social fields and their dispositions, themselves fashioned by these structures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn ideal introduction to some of Bourdieu's most important ideas, the five volumes of this series will be of great value to students and scholars who study and use Bourdieu's work across the social sciences and humanities, and they will be of interest to general readers who want to know more about the work of one of the most important sociologists and social thinkers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePierre Bourdieu\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2002) was one of the most influential sociologists and anthropologists of the late twentieth century. He was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. His many works include \u003ci\u003eOutline of a Theory of Practice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDistinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rules of Art\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Logic of Practice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePascalian Meditations\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50509632635154,"sku":"9781509526727","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_035bfff5-dd59-48a4-bc76-6cc322114fc6.jpg?v=1730903525","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/politics-and-sociology-general-sociology-volume-5-9781509526727","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}