{"id":524,"date":"2013-07-02T11:52:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T09:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/?p=524"},"modified":"2017-11-06T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T09:40:27","slug":"new-book-symbolic-power-politics-and-intellectuals-the-political-sociology-of-pierre-bourdieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/2013\/07\/new-book-symbolic-power-politics-and-intellectuals-the-political-sociology-of-pierre-bourdieu\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals: The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/files\/2013\/07\/symbolic-power-Swartz1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-526 alignleft\" alt=\"symbolic power Swartz\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/files\/2013\/07\/symbolic-power-Swartz1.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals: The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, by David L. Swartz. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that symbolic power\u2014the power to dominate\u2014is solely symbolic. He emphasized that symbolic power helps create and maintain social hierarchies, which form the very bedrock of political life. By the time of his death in 2002, Bourdieu had become a leading public intellectual, and his argument\u00a0about the more subtle and influential ways that cultural resources and symbolic categories prevail in power arrangements and practices had gained broad recognition.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<i>Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals<\/i>, David L. Swartz delves deeply into Bourdieu\u2019s work to show how central\u2014but often overlooked\u2014power and politics are to an understanding of sociology. Arguing that power and politics stand at the core of Bourdieu\u2019s sociology, Swartz illuminates Bourdieu\u2019s political project for the social sciences, as well as Bourdieu\u2019s own political activism, explaining how sociology is not just science but also a crucial form of political\u00a0engagement.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: large\">For more information please visit<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/S\/bo14365337.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: large\">https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/S\/bo14365337.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals: The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, by David L. Swartz. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013 Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13309],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-new-publications"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecpr-polsoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}