Jean Claude Passeron – författare

The way in which the ruling ideas of a social system are related to structures of class, production and power, and how these are legitimated and perpetuated, is fundamental to the sociological project.

In this second edition of this classic text, which includes a new introduction by Pierre Bourdieu, the authors develop an analysis of education (in its broadest sense, encompassing more than the process of formal education). They show how education carries an essentially arbitrary cultural scheme which is actually, though not in appearance, based on power. More widely, the reproduction of culture through education is shown to play a key part in the reproduction of the whole social system.

The analysis is carried through not only in theoretical terms but through the development of empirically testable propositions within the wider framework of the historical transformation of the educational system.

Education depends crucially on language: knowledge and skills are taught through a process of linguistic exchange. But how much of the language used by teachers and professors is actually understood by students? To what extent does the social background of students affect their capacity to understand the language used in the classroom or the lecture hall? Why do students and teachers overestimate the success of the educational process and underestimate the degree of misunderstanding involved?In this important work Pierre Bourdieu and his associates explore these and other questions through a careful study of the role of language and linguistic misunderstanding in the teaching contexts of higher education.

The work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged, over the last two decades, as one of the most substantial and innovative bodies of theory and research in contemporary social science. The Craft of Sociology, both a textbook and an original contribution to epistemology in social science, focuses on a basic problem of sociological research: the necessity of an epistemological break with the preconstructed objects social practice offers to the researcher. Pierre Bourdieu and his co-authors argue in the epistemological tradition of scholars like Bachelard, Canguilhem, Koyre, a tradition that identifies the construction of the object as being the fundamental scientific act. Their way of discussing the issue makes it accessible not only to academics and experts of epistemology, but also to advanced students of social science, using for illustration a wide range of texts from the various social sciences as well as from philosophy of science. The book includes an interview with Pierre Bourdieu and an introduction by the editor to his sociological methodology.

The work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged as one of the most substantial and innovative bodies of theory and research in contemporary social science. "Le metier de sociologue," both a textbook and an original contribution to epistemology in social science, focuses on a basic problem of sociological research: the necessity of an epistemological break with the preconstructed objects social practice offers to the researcher. Pierre Bourdieu and his co-authors argue in the epistemological tradition of scholars like Bachelard, Canguilhem, Koyre, a tradition that identifies the construction of the object as being the fundamental scientific act. Their way of discussing the issue makes it accessible not only to academics and experts of epistemology, but also to advanced students of social science, using for illustration a wide range of texts from the various social sciences as well as from philosophy of science. The fifth edition of "Le metier de sociologue" contains an interview with Pierre Bourdieu conducted by Beate Krais in 1988.

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The work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged as one of the most substantial and innovative bodies of theory and research in contemporary social science. Le métier de sociologue, both a textbook and an original contribution to epistemology in social science, focuses on a basic problem of sociological research: the necessity of an epistemological break with the preconstructed objects social practice offers to the researcher. Pierre Bourdieu and his co-authors argue in the epistemological tradition of scholars like Bachelard, Canguilhem, Koyré, a tradition that identifies the construction of the object as being the fundamental scientific act. Their way of discussing the issue makes it accessible not only to academics and experts of epistemology, but also to advanced students of social science, using for illustration a wide range of texts from the various social sciences as well as from philosophy of science.

The fifth edition of Le métier de sociologue contains an interview with Pierre Bourdieu conducted by Beate Krais in 1988.

No detailed description available for "Maritime Adaptations of the Pacific".

I Sverige har högre utbildning aldrig varit mer lättillgänglig än i dag. Runt hälften av alla gymnasister går vidare till högskola och universitet. Men de ursprungliga förhoppningarna om ökad social rörlighet och utjämnade klasskillnader har inte uppfyllts. Rekryteringen är fortfarande tydligt klassbetingad och därtill skiktad. Studenter från arbetarklass och lägre medelklass söker sig i första hand till kortare och yrkesinriktade program vid de nya universiteten och de regionala högskolorna. Studenter från den övre medelklassen söker sig i högre grad till mer prestigefulla utbildningar vid de mer prestigefyllda lärosätena. I Reproduktionen. Bidrag till en teori om utbildningssystemet visar Pierre Bourdieu och Jean-Claude Passeron varför skolsystemet och den högre utbildningen reproducerar ojämlikhet och sociala hierarkier och hur det sker. Utifrån ett stort empiriskt material formulerar de en allmän teori om utbildning och fostran och i förlängningen en kraftfull teori om klassamhällets och kulturens reproduktion. Reproduktionen är Bourdieus centrala arbete vad gäller utbildningens roll i samhället. I ett klargörande förord presenterar Donald Broady bakgrunden till och mottagandet av denna klassiker som sedan den gavs ut 1970 blivit en av de mest inflytelserika och mest citerade sociologiska texterna. Här föreligger den för första gången på svenska.

Publicado originalmente en 1970, La reproducción sigue siendo un texto clave al que hay que volver si se quiere pensar cómo funciona el sistema educativo y en qué medida, o por medio de qué estrategias y desvíos, contribuye a confirmar a los privilegiados y a los desfavorecidos en sus lugares de origen, al mismo tiempo que se ve legitimado como garante neutral de la igualdad de oportunidades. Sobre la base de investigaciones empíricas de largo aliento, Pierre Bourdieu y Jean-Claude Passeron ofrecen además un modelo teórico integral, del que surge la mayor parte de los conceptos que hoy conforman el léxico básico de los estudiantes, docentes e investigadores del mundo entero: "habitus", "capital cultural", "violencia simbólica" y, por supuesto, "reproducción".Los autores examinan los métodos pedagógicos, los criterios de ingreso y de evaluación, el valor económico y simbólico de los títulos, el registro de lengua en que se transmiten los contenidos, el desempeño de los docentes y las trayectorias de los estudiantes, pero también situaciones de aprendizaje en entornos extraescolares, como la familia y los espacios de sociabilidad más amplios, para constatar cómo el éxito o el fracaso académicos dependen del capital cultural heredado por los alumnos. A la idea simplista de que la escuela reproduce las desigualdades sociales en términos de repetición idéntica de lo mismo, Bourdieu y Passeron oponen una realidad compleja y variada: no hay complot de las élites ni alienación completa de los dominados, ni máquina infernal al servicio de los intereses de la burguesía. Hay, más bien, un sistema que va transformándose precisamente para perpetuar los privilegios de clase, con una lógica que puede desentrañarse a condición de no adjudicarla al engaño deliberado de individuos o grupos.Esta nueva edición pone a disposición de los lectores de habla hispana un libro inspirador no sólo en el campo de la sociología de la educación sino de la sociología del poder.