Contents
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
Notes
Index
