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 ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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