SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Pierre Bourdieu, Walter Benjamin, Cultural Capital
2 Apr 2013
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In his piece, the field of cultural production, pierre bourdieu takes a critical stance in examining the artistic and literary field and its place in the social world. There is great discussion as to how the artistic and literary field can be perceived as both an institution and not an institution, claiming it to be the field that is the least determinate of them. Bourdieu expresses that the artistic and literary field resists dominant fields such as the political, economic and social fields. The production of art aims to deviate away from being influenced externally, and differs from economic and political fields, as the positions one has in the artistic field are generally uninstitutionalized and non-hereditary (bourdieu, 299). Throughout the field of cultural production, bourdieu explains the importance of autonomous positions because autonomy is largely what defines the artistic and literary field as a field.
