Introduction. Heirs: Bourdieu, Marx and Ourselves

Paolucci, Gabriella

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“…In line with the Marxian sociological perspective, Bourdieu is interested in the struggle between individuals and social groups, competing to grab resources in terms of economic, cultural, social, symbolic capital, and ultimately to impose, also through the control of the judge supreme, the State (Bourdieu 2012), a vision of the world, a doxa, which legitimizes its domination in the whole of the social space or a specific field. However, the identification of his theoretical framework with the neo-Marxist theory is a patent forcing on which we do not intend to dwell, referring to the many contributions that allow us to dismantle these prejudices and familiarize ourselves with the complexity and depth of his theoretical apparatus (De Feo, Pitzalis, 2015;De Feo et alii 2019;Paolucci 2010Paolucci , 2018Susca 2017).…”

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(Re)reading Travail et travailleurs en Algérie. The relevance of one of Pierre Bourdieu’s lesser-known books

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Twenty years after the death of Pierre Bourdieu, his vast corpus continues to fuel lively debates on an international level. Over the last few years, several scholars have been interested in the link between Bourdieu and the sociology of work and the legacy of his conceptual apparatus for the sociological study of Labor. In 2021, in France, one of his lesser-known books, Travail et travailleurs en Algérie, was republished in an updated version. This critical reading pursues a triple objective: to highlight how, firstly, already in this early phase of his career, Bourdieu began to define some of the methodological and epistemological assumptions of his sociology: the relevance of reflexivity; a methodological approach that combines ethnography and statistics, overcoming the sterile contrast between objectivism and subjectivism; an idea of sociology that crosses the frontiers between the social sciences and disciplinary specializations. Secondly, the analysis of this book allows us to retrace the genesis of the concept of habitus, starting from the influence exercised on Bourdieu by Weber's study on the link between Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism. Finally, the re(reading) of Travail et travailleurs en Algérie consent to describe the substantially positive meaning that Bourdieu attributes to work, as an activity, and even more to employment in contemporary capitalist societies.

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Introduction. Heirs: Bourdieu, Marx and Ourselves

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(Re)reading Travail et travailleurs en Algérie. The relevance of one of Pierre Bourdieu’s lesser-known books

(Re)reading Travail et travailleurs en Algérie. The relevance of one of Pierre Bourdieu’s lesser-known books

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