Pierre Bourdieu's Economy of Being

This subject is not offered in 2014.

60 hours

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Bourdieu’s work can be seen as offering a ‘political economy of being’. That is, a way of understanding how society operates as a process of production and circulation of being or ‘social viability’, and how people struggle to define and accumulate what ‘being’ entails. This perspective is unique in the way it offers an analytics that is both phenomenological and structural. It aims to capture both the way social subjects experience their actions and construct their surroundings, and the social determinations of this experience. The subject explores how Bourdieu’s categories such as Habitus, Illusio, Cultural Capital, field and Symbolic Violence operate as useful research tools.

To provide advanced intensive instruction in a topic or area of scholarship in the humanities, social sciences or creative arts. A student who completes this subject should have:

• enhanced knowledge of the topic or area of scholarship taught in the module;
• an ability to reflect upon their own research work in relation to the content of the module;
• enhanced engagement with leading-edge research in Arts today.

• one 500-word essay proposal. Due during the teaching period (20%)
• one 2000-word essay. Due within four weeks of completion of teaching (80%)

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.