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Sociology Graduate Seminar in Inequality: Bourdieu’s Capital
Sociology 905, Spring 2018
Fridays 2:00 – 4:30pm Class Location: Oldfather 707
Kirk Dombrowski [email protected] 206 Benton Hall Phone:
(402) 472-3205 Office Hours: Tues & Thurs: 2:00-3:00 and by
appointment Required Texts: See Bibliography for a list of
recommended readings. Seminar participants are expected to
contribute to the course bibliography as part of their
participation. Course Grades: Grades will be based on participation
in the seminar. Students who wish to receive feedback on a paper as
part of the course must turn that paper in no later than week 10.
Each student will be asked to provide lecture/discussion summary
notes for at least one class, and to provide an annotated
bibliography on one lecture topic (5 prominent sources, cited and
summarized, for distribution to the class). Course Topics:
Week 1 1/12/17 Introduction: Theory, Bourdieu, Capital,
Sociology
Week 2 1/19/17 Habitus and its relationship to practice, field,
and capital
Week 3 1/26/17 Practice and its relationship to habitus, field,
and capital
Week 4 2/2/17 Field and its relationship to practice, habitus,
and capital
off 2/9/17 No Class (MHDI Conference)
Week 5 2/16/17 Capital and its relationship to practice, habitus
and field
Week 6 2/23/17 Bourdieu’s capital in relation to Marx
Week 7 3/2/17 Negation (and exchange?)
Week 8 3/9/17 Beyond the individual—collective practice and
politics
Week 9 3/16/17 Group habitus and the concept of institution
off 3/18-25 Spring Break
Week 10 3/30/17 Dominant fields and the concept of culture
Week 11 4/6/17 Cultural capital and hegemony
Week 12 4/13/17 Can we imagine a Bourdieuian biology?
Week 13 4/20/17 Practice theory and public health
Week 14 4/26/17 Wrap up: Some words…
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Week 1 Theory, Bourdieu, Capital, Sociology Pierre Bourdieu and
Loïc Wacquant, (1992) An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology,
University of
Chicago Press. Also: Pierre Bourdieu (1979) Algeria 1960: The
Disenchantment of the World: The Sense of Honour:
The Kabyle House or the World Reversed: Essays, Cambridge
University Press. Week 2 Habitus and its relationship to practice,
field, and capital Pierre Bourdieu (1977) Outline of a Theory of
Practice, Cambridge University Press. Parsons, T., Shils, E. A.,
& Smelser, N. J. (Eds.). (1965). Toward a general theory of
action:
Theoretical foundations for the social sciences. Transaction
publishers. Of interest: Crossley, N. (2014). The concept of habit
and the regularities of social structure.
Phenomenology and Mind, (6), 134-145. Dermot Moran (2011)
"Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology of Habituality and Habitus",
Journal
of the British Society for Phenomenology, 42 (1): 53–77. Mauss,
M. (1973). Techniques of the body. Economy and society, 2(1),
70-88. Week 3 Practice and its relationship to habitus, field, and
capital Pierre Bourdieu (1998) Practical Reason. Stanford
University Press. Marshall Sahlins (1976) Culture and Practical
Reason. U Chicago Press. Of Interest: Bourdieu, P. (1990). The
scholastic point of view. Cultural anthropology, 5(4), 380-391.
DiCicco‐Bloom, B., & Gibson, D. R. (2010). More than a game:
Sociological theory from the theories of games. Sociological
theory, 28(3), 247-271.
Lamaison, P. (1986). From rules to strategies: An interview with
Pierre Bourdieu. Cultural Anthropology, 1(1), 110-120.
Scheer, Monique. "Are emotions a kind of practice (and is that
what makes them have a history)? A Bourdieuian approach to
understanding emotion." History and Theory 51.2 (2012):
193-220.
Week 4 Field and its relationship to practice, habitus, and
capital Pierre Bourdieu (1984) Distinction: A Social Critique of
the Judgment of Taste, Routledge. Michel Foucault (1971) The
Archaeology of Knowledge. Pantheon Books. Of Interest: Pierre
Bourdieu and Luc Boltanski (1975) “Le fétichisme de la langue,”
Actes de la recherche en
sciences sociales, 1(4): 2-32. Couldry, N. (2004). Media
meta-capital: Extending the range of Bourdieu’s field theory. In
After
Bourdieu (pp. 165-189). Springer Netherlands. Rowe, E. E.
(2018). Breaking from the Field: Participant Observation and
Bourdieu’s Participant
Objectivation. In Bourdieu’s Field Theory and the Social
Sciences (pp. 99-112). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.
Week 5 Capital and its relationship to practice, habitus and
field Pierre Bourdieu (1986) The forms of capital. In J. Richardson
(Ed.) Handbook of Theory and
Research for the Sociology of Education. Greenwood Press, pp.
241-258. Pierre Bourdieu (2001) La domination masculine, 1998; Eng.
Masculine Domination, Polity,
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Press. Of interest: Anheier, H. K., Gerhards, J., & Romo, F.
P. (1995). Forms of capital and social structure in
cultural fields: Examining Bourdieu's social topography.
American journal of sociology, 100(4), 859-903.
Lamont, M., & Lareau, A. (1988). Cultural capital:
Allusions, gaps and glissandos in recent theoretical developments.
Sociological theory, 153-168.
Swartz, D. (1977). Pierre Bourdieu: The cultural transmission of
social inequality. Harvard Educational Review, 47(4), 545-555.
Week 6 Bourdieu’s capital in relation to Marx Pierre Bourdieu
(2005) The Social Structures of the Economy, Polity Press. Karl
Marx (1992) Capital, Volume 1 (Part 2: Transformation of Money into
Capital, and Part 3:
The Production of Absolute Surplus Value). Penguin Classics. Of
Interest: Beasley-Murray, J. (2000). Value and capital in Bourdieu
and Marx. Pierre Bourdieu: fieldwork
in culture, 100-119. Hall, Stuart (2003). "Marx's Notes on
Method: A 'Reading' of the '1857 Introduction.'". Cultural
Studies. 17 (2): 113–149. Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt (1999)
“Value and Affect” boundary 26(2): 77-88. Week 7 Negation and
exchange? Marcel Mauss (2000) The Gift. WW Nortion and Company.
Peter Blau (1986) Exchange and Power in Social Life. Transaction
Publishers. Of Interest; Örjan Widegren (1997) “Social Solidarity
and Social Exchange” Sociology 31(4): 755-771. Paul Redding (2015)
“Pierre Bourdieu: From Neo-Kantian to Hegelian Critical Social
Theory”,
Critical Horizons 6(1): 183-204. Week 8 Beyond the
individual—collective practice and politics Pierre Bourdieu (2000)
Pascalian Meditations, Stanford University Press. Hannah Arendt
(1998) The Human Condition. U Chicago Press. Of Interest: Swidler,
Ann. "Cultural power and social movements." Culture and Politics.
Palgrave Macmillan
US, 2000. 269-283. Escobar, Arturo. "Whose knowledge, whose
nature? Biodiversity, conservation, and the political
ecology of social movements." Journal of political ecology 5.1
(1998): 53-82. Lash, Scott. "Pierre Bourdieu: Cultural economy and
social change." Bourdieu: critical
perspectives (1993): 193-211. Week 9 Group habitus and the
concept of institution Pierre Bourdieu (1991) Language and Symbolic
Power, Harvard University Press. Jurgen Habermas (1985) Theory of
Communicative Action. Beacon Press. Of Interest:
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Throop, C. Jason, and Keith M. Murphy. "Bourdieu and
phenomenology: A critical assessment." Anthropological theory 2.2
(2002): 185-207.
Ryfe, D. M. (2007). Toward a sociology of deliberation. Journal
of public deliberation, 3(1). Holdo, M. (2015). Strategies of
deliberation: Bourdieu and struggles over legitimate
positions. Political Studies, 63(5), 1103-1119. Week 10 Dominant
fields and the concept of culture Pierre Bourdieu (1993) The field
of cultural production, Columbia University Press. Sider, Gerald M.
Between history and tomorrow: Making and breaking everyday life in
rural
Newfoundland. University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Of Interest: Yosso, T. J. (2005). Whose culture has capital? A
critical race theory discussion of community
cultural wealth. Race ethnicity and education, 8(1), 69-91.
Sider, Gerald M. "A delicate people and their dogs." Journal of
Historical Sociology 2.1 (1989):
14-40. Dombrowski, Kirk. "The praxis of indigenism and Alaska
native timber politics." American
Anthropologist 104.4 (2002): 1062-1073. Week 11 Cultural capital
and hegemony Pierre Bourdieu (1999) Acts of Resistance: Against the
Tyranny of the Market, The New Press. Raymond Williams (1977)
Marxism and Literature, Oxford University Press. Of interest:
Garnham, Nicholas, and Raymond Williams. "Pierre Bourdieu and the
sociology of culture: an
introduction." (1980) Media, Culture Society 2(3): 209-223.
Burawoy, Michael. "The roots of domination: beyond Bourdieu and
Gramsci." Sociology 46.2
(2012): 187-206. Week 12 Can we imagine a Bourdieuian biology?
Georges Canguilhem (1991) The Normal and the Pathological, trans.
Carolyn R. Fawcett & Robert
S. Cohen (New York: Zone Books. Giorgio Agamben (1998) Homo
Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford U Press. Of
Interest: Muhle, Maria. "A genealogy of biopolitics: The notion of
life in Canguilhem and Foucault." The
government of life: Foucault, biopolitics, and neoliberalism
(2014): 77-97. Koopman, Colin. "Two uses of Michel Foucault in
political theory: Concepts and methods in Giorgio
Agamben and Ian Hacking." Constellations 22.4 (2015): 571-585.
Week 13 Practice theory and public health Pierre Bourdieu (1999)
Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society,
Polity
Press. Also: Veenstra, G. (2007). Social space, social class and
Bourdieu: Health inequalities in British
Columbia, Canada. Health & place, 13(1), 14-31. Williams, S.
J. (1995). Theorising class, health and lifestyles: can Bourdieu
help us?. Sociology
of health & illness, 17(5), 577-604.
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Week 14 Wrap up Pierre Bourdieu (1987) Choses dites (Eng. In
Other Words: Essays toward a Reflective
Sociology), Stanford, 1990.
