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The purpose of this study is to find out Bourdieu's thoughts, as an introduction to understanding social reality. This study introduces the basic ideas of Bourdieu's thinking in understanding how individuals relate to form "practices". How does this "practice" occur and what is "involved" in that "practice", and what are the relations of habitus, arena, capital, practice and power in Bourdieu's view. The results of this study show that Pierre Bourdieu is one of the leading theorists whose ideas are used in cultural studies. Bourdieu's thinking was heavily influenced by Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Hegel, Marx, Durkheim, Max Weber, Picasso, Franz Fanon, Jean Paul Sartre, Husserl, Ferdinand de Saussure, Levi Strauss, Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, etc. The conclusion of the research is that Bourdieu concocted the thoughts of several thinkers into a new form of thinking that emphasizes the role of actors or subjectivity, which is known as the structural-constructive method. Bourdieu is known for developing cultural sociology studies and reflective sociology or metasociology.   Keywords: Thoughts of Pierre Bourdieu

The objectives of the research are : (i) Describe the slum in Mariso Village of Mariso Sub-District in Makassar City, (ii) Analyze the activities of the people in slum area in Mariso Village of Mariso Sub-District in Makassar City, (iii) Analyze the socioeconomic characteristics of the people in slum area in Mariso Village of  Mariso Sub-District in Makassar City. The research employed descriptive approach systematically, factually, and accurately. The data were collected through interview and documentation study technique. The results of the research reveal taht is slum in the area based on the variables which are measured in the location of the research : (i) The description of slum in Mariso Village in RW 3 and RW 7 with the slum level is in medium category. It is because each of RW analyzed had the same slum variables, (ii) The people’s activities in Mariso Village are in the forms of voluntary works, accepting helps from central or local goverment, and several forms of social competition, (iii) The socioeconomic characteristics in Mariso Village are the education level of the heads of household are still low because most of them only graduated in Primary School level. It also gives great impact on the level of incomes of  the respondents where the incomes of the heads of households are approximately 250.000 to 500.000 IDR, thus, the fulfillment of their daily needs sometimes cannot be fulfilled, except for food only.

Slum area is one of the problems which often discovered in big cities, particularly it appears and develops in strategic locations in the center of the city. With such phenomenon as slum, job, kinship, ethnic, religion and other social problems, then it can be said that the life condition of the people is heterogeneous. One of villages in Makassar city which experience social life problems related to slum area is Mariso village in Mariso Sub-district in Makassar City. The objectives of the research are Describe the slum in Mariso Village of Mariso Sub-District in Makassar City. The research employed descriptive approach systematically, factually, and accurately. The data were collected through interview and documentation study technique. The results of the research reveal that is slum in the area based on the variables which are measured in the location of the research. The description of slum in Mariso Village in RW 3 and RW 7 with the slum level is in medium category. It is because each of RW analyzed had the same slum variables.