Pierre Bourdieu:
 The Forms of Capital
Martina Bořutová, Tereza Holotíková and Michaela Vaisová

Pierre Bourdieu
uPierre Bourdieu was born in 1930 in southern France
uHe received classical philosophical education
uBourdieu changed relatively soon philosophy for social sciences
uBourdieu published about thirty books
uHis work is the result of the synthesis of the knowledge ethnological field research with a
theoretical concept
uStructuralism and existentialism Bourdieu rejected
uBourdieu is considered as a poststructuralist
uHis sociological views were formed of his own experience and life career
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Timeline of Pierre Bourdieu
uBourdieu began his scientific career as an ethnologist of the Maghreb community uIn the 1960s he
continued ethnological study of rituals, kinship and social change in Kabyle uSince 1964 Bourdieu
worked as a professor of sociology at the École pratique des hautes études en sciences sociales
uDuring the seventies, he continued to research a wide range of interconnected themes, such as
culture, class, and power
uIn 1975 he founded a periodical Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales
uFrom 1981 until his death in 2002, he worked as a professor of sociology at the College de France
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Pierre Bourdieu – Main Ideas
uBourdieu in his work presents an original synthesis of theory, methodology and epistemology
uBourdieu says the social world has its own objective and subjective side
uSociology according Bourdieu is not only a reconstruction of objective relationships, but also
researching of the subjective experience and orientation of the participants uThe concept of
Bourdieu consists of several basic concepts such as habitus, field, and capital uThe term habitus
indicates to the appearance, the image, the way of expression and the unusualness of the personal
style of behavior uWith this concept is related a term of dispositions, which means a tendency to
certain behavior
uPractice forming from habitus is realized in a structured framework called a field
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The forms of capital
uWhat is capital?
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uEconomical capital
uSocial capital
uCultural capital
uThe embodied state
uThe objectified state
uThe institutionalized state
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Distinction:
A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
uCulture – anthropological sense
uCultural capital - A person's education (knowledge and intellectual skills) that provides
advantage in achieving a higher social-status in society
uSociety as a judge
uClass fractions
uTaste
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Is the institutionalized state (which includes diploma or degree) important today?
Does society respect more economical or social capital (it means for example relationships)?


Resources
uBOURDIEU, Pierre. The Forms of Capital [online]. 1986 [cit. 2018-04-15]. Dostupné z:
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2018/ZUR436/um/readings/week_9/bourdieu_forms_of_capital.pdf
uŠUBRT, Jiří. Postavy a problémy soudobé teoretické sociologie: sociologické teorie druhé poloviny
20. století. Praha: ISV, 2001. Sociologie (ISV). ISBN 80-858-6677-3.
uRŮŽIČKA, Michal a Petr VAŠÁT. Základní koncepty Pierra Bourdieu: pole – kapitál
–habitus. AntropoWebzin [online]. 2011 [cit. 2018-04-15]. Dostupné z:
http://www.soc.cas.cz/sites/default/files/publikace/ruzicka-vasat-2-2011.pdf
uLACHMANN, Filip. Loïc Wacquant: teorie a dílo Pierra Bourdieu [online]. 2012 [cit. 2018-04-15].
Dostupné z: http://socialniteorie.cz/loic-wacquant-teorie-a-dilo-pierra-bourdieu/#ref2
uPierre Bourdieu. In: Culture on the Edge [online]. 2015 [cit. 2018-04-16]. Dostupné z:
https://edge.ua.edu/tag/pierre-bourdieu/
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