AN347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dualism, Intersession, Geneticist
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Very critical of anything that seemed too certain or too complete. 1989 fall of the berlin wall: critiqued neoliberal capitalism. Noting about complexity and the other perspectives. Species of capital: economic capital, cultural capital. Connections that enable them to succeed: social capital, symbolic capital. Field: arena of play, current and historical relations between agents, most important is the field of power. Symbolic violence: exercised on a social agent with his or her complicity. Interested chiefly in the ways in which power plays a part in social life. Largely opposed to the dualisms found in social analysis (i. e. subjectivism/objectivism: claude levi-strauss. Bourdieu believes it can be too simple. One of his key contributions was in trying to unmask how context plays an important part in the generation of ideas. At the same time, he was highlighting the way in which ideas possess power through their context .
