Bourdieu writes, “The social world is accumulated history.” I think Bourdieu’s theory of capital and Domhoff’s research on the corporate community and upper class constitute a critique of both mainstream economic theory and Marxist theory. Bourdieu’s conception of cultural capital in the embodied state and objectified state as well as his conception of social capital are important, no doubt.

Interesting guy. Appears to be quite humble, inspite of his stature. Lesson in humility.

I’m writing up my phd thesis and in one discussion chapter I am using Foucaults notions of discourse and subject positions and in the following chapter using Bourdieu’s notions of capitals and symbolic violence. The chapters are based on the same piece of research but represent different phases in the research. Does this represent an epistemological dilemma or can i legitimately do this. I am using a grounded theory approach therefore it’s my opinion that I should use the theoretical framework that fits with the data rather than tring to squeeze the data into a pre-set framework. Anyone?

hehe Bourdieu puzzling over what something means…! priceless.

academics like Pierre don’t come often, intellectual champ with a social cause, or rather causes.