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This is the third of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at theCollége de France in the early 1980s under the titleGeneral Sociology. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline; in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts for which he has become so well known, concepts that continue to shape the way that sociology is practised today. In this volume, Bourdieu focuses on one of these key concepts, capital, which forms part of the trilogy of concepts habitus, capital, field that define the core of his theoretical approach. A field, as a social space of relatively durable relations between agents and institutions, is also a site of specific investments, which presupposes the possession of specific forms of capital and secures both material and symbolic profits. While there are many different forms of capital, two are fundamental and effective in all social fields: economic capital and cultu

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 1/6/2024
    ISBN13: 9781509565443, 978-1509565443
    ISBN10: 1509565442

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    This is the third of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at theCollége de France in the early 1980s under the titleGeneral Sociology. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline; in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts for which he has become so well known, concepts that continue to shape the way that sociology is practised today. In this volume, Bourdieu focuses on one of these key concepts, capital, which forms part of the trilogy of concepts habitus, capital, field that define the core of his theoretical approach. A field, as a social space of relatively durable relations between agents and institutions, is also a site of specific investments, which presupposes the possession of specific forms of capital and secures both material and symbolic profits. While there are many different forms of capital, two are fundamental and effective in all social fields: economic capital and cultu

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