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Pierre Bourdieu
Birth at
1 August 1930
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Bourdieu Pierre (born 1930), a contemporary French sociologist and culturologist close to neo-Marxism. Works on the sociology of power and politics, social stratification of society and “symbolic capitals” of various groups, art and mass culture. Middle art books. Essays on the Social Use of Photography (1965), Reproduction. Elements of the Theory of Educational Systems (1970), Difference. Social Criticism of Judgment (1979), Principles (1987), Rules of Art. Genesis and the Structure of the Literary
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Bourdieu Pierre (born 1930), a contemporary French sociologist and culturologist close to neo-Marxism. Works on the sociology of power and politics, social stratification of society and “symbolic capitals” of various groups, art and mass culture.
Middle art books. Essays on the Social Use of Photography (1965), Reproduction. Elements of the Theory of Educational Systems (1970), Difference. Social Criticism of Judgment (1979), Principles (1987), Rules of Art. Genesis and the Structure of the Literary Field (1992) The central ideas of his culturological concept – “cultural capital” and “habitus” – were borrowed from Althuser. The function of socialization is to transfer cultural capital to new generations. Habitus, which has many meanings, can express the principle that regulates action, the system of perception, thinking, evaluation and action, the way speech is expressed in a given community, the means of communication, “good taste”, “assimilated style”, etc. Experts believe that his ideas and method of analysis are, on the one hand, quite original, and on the other hand, represent a mixture of borrowings from the work of other scientists. One of the sources of his theory is the British sociology of culture and cultural studies. Another source is neo-Marxism and cognitive sociology.