To teach Pierre Bourdieu at 9-3: what to speak means to say

Authors

  • Fabien Truong University of Paris 8

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7984.2019v18n41p280

Abstract

This article addresses the confrontation between Bourdieu’s high social theory and a public disarmed to appropriate his views about symbolic domination and social inequality: the lower- class, immigrant pupils of high schools located in the declining urban periphery of the Greater Paris. Through an intensive sociological field work, I propose an empirical observation of the social reception of Bourdieu’s work. It questions the risk of meaningless behavior for both pupils and teachers as Bourdieu’s theory is going against the necessary meritocratic grain in the classroom and it explores the subjective meaning of the domination theory for dominated individuals, in between acceptance and denial. This study shows that in the French banlieues, it creates an individual and precarious feeling of self-empowerment.

Author Biography

Fabien Truong, University of Paris 8

 Doutor em Sociologia pela Escola de Altos Estudos em Ciências Sociais (França), Professor do Departamento de Sociologia e Antropologia da Universidade de Paris 8. É atualmente o responsável pelo mestrado MEEF SES (Sciences de l'éducation et de la formation - Sciences économiques et sociales), que é uma preparação para o concursos para certificação de professor do ensino secundário na França na área de Ciências Econômicas e Sociais.

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Published

2019-09-23

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 41 (2019)

Section

Special Issue 1 - Sociology and sociologists in Latin America: research, teaching, and interdisciplinarity in contemporary context

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