File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1997/97-04-25.090, message 44


Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 22:21:04  +0000
From: "robert moore" <rm233-AT-hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu and structuralism


Cheers - very useful. I'll go back to those refs (I'd forgotten the
Bourdieu & Passeron - must be there subliminally). I'm currently writing on
Durkheim for a book on sociology of education for Polity Press & am
becoming increasingly aware of the relative neglect of his educational
writings (almost total in soc of ed!!!) and their relevance to contemporary
Anglo-American interests in French social theory. I think D suffers greatly
through the legacy of his recontextualisation within
structural-functionalism & the manner in which that was treated in the
'positivist debate' & the rise of interpretive schools - D came to define
what they were against + conventional introductary expositions which
typically contrast D (as social order theorist) against Marx (as social
change theorist). What is really interesting is the strong similarity
between M & D (esp Marx of the Economic & Philosophical Mans). I am also
struck (in my rather limited reading I must admit) by a lack of comment on
the obviously Durkheimian character of Foucault - surely the
knowledge/power stuff can be understood in terms of 'compulsion' and
becomes far less confused & confusing if placed within that problematic. It
seems to me that F's originality is grossly overestimated by Ang/Ams by
failure to locate him properly within the Durkheimian legacy within Fr
social theory???

Rob  
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