A special programme on Pierre Bourdieu

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Society & Culture, Science

4.4 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A special programme on Pierre Bourdieu: Laurie Taylor explores the ideas and legacy of the French sociologist, best known for establishing the concepts of cultural, social, and symbolic forms of capital (as opposed to traditional economic forms of capital). His book 'Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste' was judged the sixth most important sociological work of the twentieth century by the International Sociological Association. His work is credited with enhancing the understanding of the ways in which the social order and power are transferred across generations. Laurie is joined by Diane Reay, Professor of Education at Cambridge University, Derron Wallace, Post Doctoral Fellow at Brandeis University and Kirsty Morrin, Phd Student at the University of Manchester and co-convenor for the Bourdieu Study Group. Revised repeat Producer: Jayne Egerton

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0:29.7	I'm Laurie Taylor and this is a podcast for BBC Radio Ford thinking aloud.
0:37.0	Nowadays it seems nobody can even begin to discuss class and class conflict without invoking his concepts.
0:45.0	Field, Habitas, social capital, cultural capital, symbolic capital,
0:50.0	meet Pierre Borgia.
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0:59.0	Hello.
1:00.0	Frankly, I blame Pierre Bourdieu.
1:04.2	If it hadn't been for the French philosopher and public intellectual, I might have been innocently
1:09.6	looking forward now to seeing a midsummer night stream at the Regents Park Open Air
1:14.2	Theatre. But now like so many academics and a considerable number of
1:19.7	pseudo-academics, I become so infected with Baudius concept of cultural capital that I've actually
1:26.6	begun to fret about whether I should tell my friends that I'm off to see such a tried and
1:31.3	trusted play performed in the open air before a largely tourist audience.
1:36.4	I mean, wouldn't my cultural capital have been so much more secure if I booked for a fringe theatre
1:42.4	production saver, well well a first-time playwright.
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