Autore
Wacquant, Loic

Titolo
Potere simbolico e costituzione dei gruppi: come Bourdieu ha riformulato la questione delle classi
Periodico
Polis
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 26 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 379 - Pagina finale: 400

Pierre Bourdieu's recasting of the question of class exemplifies themajor features of his sociology and the way he extends, melds andmends classical views into a distinctive framework. Bourdieu's approachis relational, agonistic, and synthetic; it spotlights the symbolicdimension of group formation as practical achievement while fusingtheory and research; and it introduces multiple correspondance analysisas a statistical technique suited to grasping constellations of multiplecapitals. Bourdieu reformulates the problem of domination by questioningthe ontological status of collectives and by forging tools for elucidatingthe politics of group-making: the sociosymbolic alchemy wherebya mental construct is turned into a historical reality through the inculcationof schemata of perception and their deployment to draw, enforce,or contest social boundaries. The article traces the impetus behind thekey conceptual shifts Bourdieu effects, from class structure to socialspace, from class consciousness to habitus, from ideology to symbolicviolence, and from ruling class to field of power. It also points to recentstudies that have tried, tested, and refined the core tenets of his model aswell as offers a bibliography of Bourdieu's publications on class documentinga twofold empirical and analytic shift towards a sociology ofthe realization of categories that spotlights the constitutive power ofsymbolic structures.



SICI: 1120-9488(2012)26:3<379:PSECDG>2.0.ZU;2-F
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