Habitus and Field (Lectures at the College de France (1982-1983)

Lecture of 5 October 1982 
The retrospective illusion and the unreality of theory in research – A work of axiomatisation – Scientific concepts – The fundamental questions – Realist definition and interactionist definition – Metaphysical requirements for sociology – Iron Filings

    
Lecture of 12 October 1982
The double life of the social - The process of objectification and incorporation of the social - Moving beyond the opposition between subjectivism and objectivism. - Scholarly understanding and practical understanding - The examples of reading and the work of art - Programme of future lectures and questions from the audience

    
Lecture of 19 October 1982
Sense without consciousness - The mechanistic error and the intellectualist error - The temptation of the sociologist as king - Intellectual obstacles to the knowledge of the gnoseologia inferior - The habitus as orthe doxa
          

Lecture of 2 November 1982
Positions and dispositions - The two states of history - A feel for the game - Practical knowledge - Investment in the game and illusio - Affective transference of the domestic libido, and conformism - Critique of the economic discourse - The economic conditions of economic practices

    
Lecture of 9 November 1982
Habituality in Husserl - Decision theory in economics - Avoiding mechanism and purposiveness - The theory of the machine - The ontological power of language - Popular culture and popular language - Marxist teleology – The reification and  personification of the collective. - The solution of the habitus
    
    
Lecture of 16 November 1982
The adaptation of expectation to opportunity - Avoiding purposiveness- Interiorising the social - Incorporating necessity - Rites of institution - The call to order: the example of the relation of the family to the school - Social relations in the enquiry relationship - Surreptitious persuasion, symbolic violence - The paradox of continuity - Critique of the scholarly relation


Lecture of 23 November 1982
A double-voiced discourse - Looking scholarly - Where is the sociologist coming from? - Sociology in the space of disciplines - The unconscious structures of the hierarchy of disciplines - Philosophy / sociology / history - Epistemological struggles, social struggles - Finding out what sociology does

    

Lecture of 30 November 1982
Sociology as taking liberty/ies - Positions, dispositions and stances - Sociological bodies and academic styles - Positions attained and positions to attain - Mental structures and objective structures - Transformations of the field: the case of the university system - The refraction of external constraints - Strategies of struggle - The boundaries of the field - The intellectual field
    

Lecture of 7 December 1982      
The structural mode of thinking - From symbolic systems to social relations - Parenthesis on the genesis of a corpus of knowledge - The field of forces and the field of struggles - Thinking a social position - How to construct a relational space? - The distribution of capital and the different structures - The inter-fields - Return to the structure of the distribution of capital - The interdependence of  field and capital - The major kinds of capital - Conversion of the kinds of capital

Lecture of 14 December 1982
A manner of thinking - The field and the statistical aggregate - The concept of the field (1): theoretical itinerary - The concept of the field (2): practical itinerary Field and milieu - Field and interaction - Field and network - Field and positions - Field and representation of the situation - The space of objective relations and the space of interactions - Field, group, population, individual - Representations and practical sense - Homologies between fields

Lecture of 11 January 1983      
Physicalism and semiologism - Structure as crystallised history - Roulette and poker - The alternatives of income or trade - Amor fati. - The fertile terrain of the literary field - Art versus method: charismatic ideology and ‘sociology of literature’ - The field as mediation - Literary field and intertextuality - A chiasmatic structure - Automation, hierarchisation, institutionalisation - The intellectual in the field of cultural production

Lecture of 18 January 1983      
The world upside-down - Field of power and field of cultural production - Conservative intellectual - The law of symbolic legitimation - Return to the struggles within the field of cultural production - The genesis of the invariants - The adaptation of offer to demand through homology of structure - The conquest of autonomy - The hierarchy of productions and the hierarchy of publics

Lecture of 25 January 1983      
The economic logic of cultural enterprises - The truth of practice - The deferred profits of disinterestedness - The ambivalent profits of the market - The subversion of the rules of the field - Time-scales and ‘personalities’ - Clients and rivals: the mediation of the education system - Generations and revolutions - Modes of ageing and eternalisation - Overthrowing for the sake of overthrowing - Orientating the self in the space of possibilities - Trajectory / career and  habitus - The impious dismantling of the fiction

Appendix
Summary of lectures, published in the Annuaire du Collège de France

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