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- Title
Towards the Role of Self, Worth, and Feelings in (Re-)Producing Social Dominance. Explicating Pierre Bourdieu's Implicit Theory of Affect.
- Authors
Matthäus, Sandra
- Abstract
In this theoretical article it is argued that Pierre Bourdieu's Social Theory provides us with a convincing account of how the subjectivated social actor, social evaluation procedures, and affective states are inherently intertwined. Therefore, it contains an implicit theory of affect offering not only a better understanding of the role affective states play within sociological theory building, but also in the (re-)production of social order, especially in terms of social inequality or social domination in (late) modernity. In doing so, it also illuminates processes of social transformation. A twofold analysis is provided: A reconstruction of Bourdieu's perspective on the general structure of (late) modernity especially emphasizing his (late) modern anthropology, as well as an examination of his theoretical considerations of the habitus. As a result, on a social theoretical level, feelings, emotions, sensations, etc. appear as a specific, particularly naturalized evaluative social practice. On the level of societal analysis feeling appreciated as the result of practically referring appreciatively towards oneself emerges as the legitimate (late) modern subject structure.
- Subjects
SOCIAL theory; BOURDIEU, Pierre, 1930-2002; HABITUS (Sociology); MODERNITY; AFFECT (Psychology); EMOTIONS -- Social aspects; SOCIAL dominance
- Publication
Historical Social Research, 2017, Vol 42, Issue 4, p75
- ISSN
0172-6404
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12759/hsr.42.2017.4.75-92