State Nobility Elite Schools in the Field of Power

Name: State Nobility Elite Schools in the Field of Power
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ISBN: 9780804733465

ISBN-10: 0804733465

ISBN-13: 9780804733465

Edition: 1996

Authors: Pierre Bourdieu, Lauretta C. Clough, Loic J. Wacquant

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In this major new work, Pierre Bourdieu examines the distinctive forms of power—political, intellectual, bureaucratic, and economic—by means of which contemporary societies are governed. What kinds of competence are claimed by the bureaucrats and technocrats who govern us? And how do those who govern gain our recognition and acquiescence? Bourdieu examines in detail the work of consecration that is carried out by elite education systems—in France by the grande écoles, in the United States by the Ivy League schools, and in England by Oxford and Cambridge. Today, this “state nobility” has at its disposal an unprecedented range of powers and distinctive titles to justify its privilege.…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 2/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.01" wide x 8.99" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Foreword



Translator's Note


Prologue: Social Structures and Mental Structures



Academic Forms of Classification:



Dualistic Thinking and the Conciliation of Opposites



Misrecognition and Symbolic Violence



The Ordination:



The Production of a Nobility



A Rite of Institution



The Ambiguities of Competence



The Field of the Grandes ï¿½coles and its Transformations:



A State of the Structure



A Structural History



The Field of Power and its Transformations:



Forms of Power and their Reproduction



Establishment Schools and Power over the Economy



Transformations in the Structure of the Field of Power



State Power and Power over the State:


Notes


Index