Bahattin Aksit 2023 Bourdieu: Distinction: Economic & Cultural Capital: Production or Consumption

In this video I discuss Bourdieu's following basic themes and concepts: Sociology as socio-analysis; how to escape from social determinisms and be objective about one’s own universe; sociology of sociology; Study of kinship relations in Algeria and his own village: making exotic mundane and mundane exotic; real is the relational; field as a network of objective relations between positions; relatively and irreducible autonomous social microcosms; field as game, investment in the game (illusio); strategic orientation towards game; difference between field, apparatus and system; steppes for the study of field: position of each field vis-à-vis the field of power; homologies between the fields; fields as system of relations independent of populations; identifying specific capital in each field; hermeneutic circle between field and capital; agents as bearers of capitals; statist capital as meta-capital; habitus and its relation to capital: capital presents itself under three fundamental species: economic capital, cultural capital and social capital; cultural capital as informational capital; the actual logic of practice; habitus as socially constituted structured and structuring dispositions; habitus is socialized subjectivity; use of all techniques of data collection like in his book Distinction; construction of object of research; the identity of the researcher; thinking relationally; from particular to general and invariant. structural conservatism; ideology as misrecognition; conversion of one’s gaze; epistemological rapture; rupture with common sense.