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  2. Symbolic power - Wikipedia

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    Louis Althusser further developed it in his writing on what he called Ideological State Apparatuses, arguing that the latter's power is partly based on symbolic repression. [3] The concept of symbolic power was first introduced by Pierre Bourdieu in La Distinction. Bourdieu suggested that cultural roles are more dominant than economic forces in ...

  3. Linguistic marketplace - Wikipedia

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    On linguistic markets, linguistic capital—a subtype of the broader concept of cultural capital according to Pierre Bourdieu [2] —is exchanged, and different languages and varieties have different symbolic values. Different linguistic varieties are assigned market values and various prices that are either positive or negative.

  4. Pierre Bourdieu - Wikipedia

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    Pierre Bourdieu was born in Denguin (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), in southern France, to a postal worker and his wife.The household spoke Béarnese, a Gascon dialect. In 1962, Bourdieu married Marie-Claire Brizard, and the couple would go on to have three sons, Jérôme, Emmanuel, and Laurent.

  5. Symbolic violence - Wikipedia

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    Symbolic violence is a term coined by Pierre Bourdieu, a prominent 20th-century French sociologist, and appears in his works as early as the 1970s. [1] Symbolic violence describes a type of non-physical violence manifested in the power differential between social groups.

  6. Field theory (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Much of Bourdieu's work observes the semi-independent role of educational and cultural resources in the expression of agency. This makes his work amenable to liberal-conservative scholarship positing the fundamental cleavages of society as amongst disorderly factions of the working class, in need of disciplinary intervention where they have ...

  7. Cultural reproduction - Wikipedia

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    Cultural reproduction, a concept first developed by French sociologist and cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu, [1] [2] is the mechanisms by which existing cultural forms, values, practices, and shared understandings (i.e., norms) are transmitted from generation to generation, thereby sustaining the continuity of cultural experience across time.

  8. Habitus (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    The sociologist Pierre Bourdieu said that the habitus consists of the hexis, a person's carriage and speech , and the mental habits of perception, classification, appreciation, feeling, and action. [2] [3] The habitus allows the individual person to consider and resolve problems based upon gut feeling and intuition. This way of living (social ...

  9. The System of Objects - Wikipedia

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    Print The System of Objects ( French : Le Système des objets ) is a 1968 book by the sociologist Jean Baudrillard . The book is based on the Baudrillard's doctoral thesis under the dissertation committee of Henri Lefebvre , Roland Barthes , and Pierre Bourdieu .