File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1996/96-12-01.092, message 12


Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 19:56:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dominique Bosse <bossed-AT-ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: Re: symbolic violence in late capitalism


On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Frans Schryer wrote:

> in response to question/ issues raised:
> 
> I think Bourdieu's notion of symbolic violence (i.e. the process of 
> subordination which does not involve the direct use of force) is very 
> current in today's world (including in the so-called late capitalist 
> phase). Surely the development and differential distribution of high 
> literacy skills, computer jargon, the specialized discourse of 
> professinals etc. are all new forms of more prestigious dialects 
> (apart from the role of standard "educated" English in many countries, 
> including the U.S. where not everyone speaks English or the right 
> kind of English). I can easily see symbolic violence as a useful 
> concept even in relatively homogenous linguistic areas; surely the 
> men in Kabyle society exercised symbolic violence over women 
> (regardless of the whole issue of linguistic diversity or even state 
> expansion). Have you looked at the kind of work (and use of Bourdieu) 
> done by Lemke (in English studies, rhetoric)?
> 
> F. Schryer

		How would you apply the concept of symbolic
		violence to the situation of native speakers
		of French in Canada?

		Dominique Bosse`

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