The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu

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An introduction to Bourdieu’s thought and an evaluation of the international significance of his work from a range of national perspectives

'The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu' provides an introduction to the French sociologist’s thought and an evaluation of the international significance of his work from a range of national perspectives. The contributions in the companion investigate the applicability of Bourdieu’s theories and concepts in diverse sociopolitical contexts and consider the ways they can be said to possess universal validity. In examining Bourdieu on his own philosophical terms, this companion contributes to the general debate about the effects of the transnational and transcultural transfer of concepts generated in the West.

Acknowledgements; Editor’s Introduction; Part I:Aspects of Bourdieu’s thought; 1. Reading Bourdieu phenomenologically. Derek Robbins; 2. The Sociological Challenge of Reflexivity in Bourdieusian Thought. Simon Susen; 3. Sociology at the Scale of the Individual. Archer and Lahire contra Bourdieu. Frédéric Vandenberghe; 4. Bourdieu and international social science. Derek Robbins; Part II:Case-studies of the international deployment of Bourdieu’s thought; 5. Bourdieu inside Europe. The European circulation of Bourdieu’s ideas.  Marco Santoro and Andrea Gallelli; 6. The principle of differentiation in Japanese society and international knowledge transfer between Bourdieu and Japan. Shinichi Aizawa and Naoki Iso; 7. Worlds Within And Beyond Words: Bourdieu And The Limits Of Theory. Sheena Jain; 8. Social transformation and cultural reproduction: a bourdieusian analysis of post-reform China. Yang Yang and Xuanyang Gao; 9. Bourdieu’s use and reception: A Latin American perspective on the problems of conceptual transfer. MariaLuisa Mendez; Notes on contributors; Author index; Subject index.

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• Sociologie, société et politique
• Sociology

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• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 05 août 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781783085637
• Langue: English

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The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu
ANTHEM COMPANIONS TO SOCIOLOGY
Anthem Companions to Sociology offer authoritative and comprehensive assessments of major figures in the development of sociology from the past two centuries. Covering the major advancements in sociological thought, these companions offer critical evaluations of key figures in the American and European sociological traditions, and will provide students and scholars with an in-depth assessment of the makers of sociology and chart their relevance to modern society.
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Bryan S. Turner  –​ City University of New York, USA, and 
Australian Catholic University, Australia
Forthcoming titles in this series include:
The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt
The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte
The Anthem Companion to Everett Hughes
The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim
The Anthem Companion to Robert Park
The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons
The Anthem Companion to Phillip Rieff
The Anthem Companion to Georg Simmel
The Anthem Companion to Gabriel Tarde
The Anthem Companion to Ferdinand Tönnies
The Anthem Companion to Ernst Troeltsch
The Anthem Companion to Thorstein Veblen
The Anthem Companion to Max Weber
The Anthem Companion 
to Pierre Bourdieu
Edited by Derek Robbins
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Title: Anthem companion to Pierre Bourdieu / edited by Derek Robbins.
Description: London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2016. | Series: Anthemcompanions to sociology | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016028763 | ISBN 9781783085613 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930–2002. | 
Sociologists – France. |Sociology – France.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction Derek Robbins
PART I: ASPECTS OF BOURDIEU’S THOUGHT Chapter 1. Reading Bourdieu Phenomenologically Derek Robbins Chapter 2. The Sociological Challenge of Reflexivity in Bourdieusian Thought Simon Susen Chapter 3. Sociology at the Scale of the Individual: Arche and Lahire contra Bourdieu r Frédéric Vandenberghe Chapter 4. Bourdieu and International Social Science Derek Robbins
PART II: CASE STUDIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEPLOYMENT OF BOURDIEU’S THOUGHT Chapter 5. Bourdieu Inside Europe: The European Circulation of Bourdieu’s Ideas Marco Santoro and Andrea Gallelli Chapter 6. The Principle of Differentiation in Japanese Society and International Knowledge Transfer between Bourdieu and Japan Shinichi Aizawa and Naoki Iso Chapter 7. Worlds within and beyond Words: Bourdieu and the Limits of Theory Sheena Jain Chapter 8. Social Transformation and Cultural Reproduction: A Bourdieusian Analysis of 
Post-Reform China Yang Yang and Xuanyang Gao Chapter 9. Bourdieu’s Use and Reception: A Latin American Perspective on the Problems of Conceptual Transfer María-​Luisa Méndez
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Index of Titles of Books by Bourdieu Cited in the Volume
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My thanks are due to the contributors to this volume who have all cooperated in its production throughout quite a long period of gestation. I know some personally and others only electronically but the collaboration has been equally satisfying with everyone. I am acutely aware that it is the editor’s privilege to have the last word –​ to give introductory comments on all contributions and to shape the meaning of the collection –​ and I have used that privilege to write an introduction and separately to offer a first contribution that suggests a reading both of Bourdieu and of the volume. I hope that the contributors will not feel that they have been excessively ‘framed’ by my editorial direction, and I trust that the volume will generate debate in which they will participate.
My thanks are also due to the editors at Anthem Press for their patience and guidance in seeing the collection safely through to completion.
INTRODUCTION
Derek Robbins
We are familiar with the tension between quantitative and qualitative research in sociology , between data collection and analysis on the one hand and the recording of narrative on the other. One way to situate Pierre Bourdieu’s work in these terms is to understand it as an alternative response to the situation of the natural and cultural sciences identified by Jürgen Habermas.
Habermas’s Identification of the Problem and 
His Proposed Solution
Just less than half a century ago, Habermas bemoaned the fact that a gulf had developed between the natural sciences, which are taken to be concerned with the formulation of explanatory laws (‘nomological sciences’ ), and the human sciences , which are taken to be concerned with understanding the historically contingent behaviour of people (‘historical-​hermeneutic sciences’ ) (1988, 1). Even worse, Habermas contended, there was an increasing tendency for nomological science to invade the territory of the hermeneutic. The disposition of economists to generate laws of economic behaviour that are independent of the cultural assumptions of human agents was just one example of this creeping scientistic encroachment. Habermas’s perception was a consequence of his immersion in previous German intellectual struggles –​ firstly the Methodenstreit (struggle about method), which pitted scientific and cultural economists against each other in the 1880s and 1890s (Carl Menger versus Gustav von Schmoller) for which Max Weber’s economic sociology was an attempted resolution, and, secondly, the Positivissmusstreit (struggle about positivism) of the 1960s, which set Karl Popper against Habermas’s mentor, Theodore Adorno.
Habermas argued that the non-​communication between the natural and human sciences that he detected was particularly unacceptable in respect of the social sciences, which by definition seek to find law-​like explanations of human behaviour that do justice to human free will and also offer guidelines to inform social policy making. Accordingly, Habermas was motivated to write Zur Logik der Sozialwissenschaften ( On the Logic of the Social Sciences ; [1970], 1988). Habermas had previously written a social-​historical account of the function and meaning of the ‘public sphere’, which was first published in 1962 as Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit ( The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere ; [1962], 1989). He had been an Assistent in the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research from 1956 to 1959 but this topic for his habilitation thesis had been rejected by Max Horkheimer. Habermas wrote it instead under the supervision of Wolfgang Abendroth at the University of Marburg (see Specter 2010, 33). Before taking his position at Frankfurt, Habermas had, in 1954, submitted his doctoral thesis at the University of Bonn on Friedrich von Schelling, a post-​Kantian contemporary of G. W. F. Hegel and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Habermas’s doctoral thesis was entitled ‘Das Absolute und die Geschichte: Von der Zwiespältigkeit in Schellings Denken’ (The absolute and history: on the tension in Schelling’s thought). There was a revival of interest in Germany in Schelling’s thought at the time, particularly in the lectures that he gave, probably in 1833–​4, ‘On the History of Modern Philosophy’, in which he evaluated historically the development of Western European philosophy from René Descartes until his own day (see Schelling ed. Bowie 1993; Bowie 1994; 2003). At the instigation of Hans-​Georg Gadamer and Karl Löwith, Habermas was appointed extraordinary professor of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg in 1962, and then, in 1964, he succeeded Horkheimer in the chair of philosophy and sociology at the University of Frankfurt. These were all value-​laden moves. Habermas initially explored in and through the thought of Schelling the tension that he subsequently experienced himself intellectually and institutionally in reflecting on the philosophy of the social sciences. In On the Logic of the Social Sciences , Habermas characterized the ‘dualism of the natural and cultural sciences’ by reference to representatives of the opposing traditions –​ Popper of the ‘analytical’ tradition associated with the Vienna Circle and Hans-​Georg Gadamer