Habitus and field : general sociology. Volume 2, Lectures at the Collège de France (1981-1982) / Pierre Bourdieu ; edition established by Patrick Champagne, Julien Duval, Franck Poupeau and Marie-Christine Rivière ; translated by Peter Collier.

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lecture of 5 October 1982 -- The retrospective illusion and the unreality of theory in research -- A work of axiomatisation Scientific concepts -- The fundamental questions -- Realist definition and interactionist definition -- Metaphysical requirements for sociology -- Iron filings -- Lecture of 12 October 1982 -- The double life of the social -- The process of objectification and incorporation of the social -- Moving beyond the opposition between subjectivism and objectivism -- Scholarly understanding and practical understanding -- The examples of reading and the work of art -- Programme of future lectures and questions from the audience -- Lecture of 19 October 1982 -- Sense without consciousness -- The mechanistic error and the intellectualist error -- The temptation of the sociologist as king -- Intellectual obstacles to the knowledge of the gnoseologia inferior -- The habitus as or the doxa -- Lecture of 2 November 1982 -- Positions and dispositions -- The two states of history -- A feel for the game -- Practical knowledge -- Investment in the game and illusio -- Affective transference of the domestic libido and conformism -- Critique of the economic discourse -- The economic conditions of economic practices -- Lecture of 9 November 1982 -- Habituality in Husserl -- Decision theory in economics -Escaping mechanism and purposiveness -- The theory of the machine -- The ontological power of language -- Popular culture and popular language -- Marxist teleology -- The reification and personification of the collective -- The solution of the habitus -- Lecture of 16 November 1982 -- The adaptation of expectation to opportunity -- Avoiding purposiveness -- Interiorising the social -- Incorporating necessity -- Rites of institution -- The call to order: the example of the relation of the family to the school -- Social relations in the enquiry relationship -- Surreptitious persuasion, symbolic violence -- The paradox of continuity -- Critique of the scholarly relation -- Lecture of 23 November 1982 -- A double-voiced discourse -- Looking scholarly -- Where is the sociologist coming from? -- Sociology in the space of disciplines -- The unconscious structures of the hierarchy of disciplines -Philosophy/sociology{history} -- Epistemological struggles, social struggles -- Finding out what sociology does -- Lecture of 30 November 1982 -- Sociology as taking liberty{liberties} -- Positions, dispositions and stances -- Sociological bodies and academic styles -Positions attained and positions in the making -- Mental structures and objective structures -- Transformations of the field: the case of the university system -- The refraction of external constraints -- Strategies of struggle -- The boundaries of the field -- The intellectual field -- Lecture of 7 December 1982 -- The structural mode of thinking -- From symbolic systems to social relations -- Parenthesis on the genesis of a corpus of knowledge -- The field of forces and the field of struggles -Thinking a social position -- How do we construct a relational space? -- The distribution of capital and the different structures -- The inter-fields -- Return to the structure of the distribution of capital -- The interdependence of field and capital The major kinds of capital Conversion of the kinds of capital -- Lecture of 14 December 1982 -- A manner of thinking The field and the statistical aggregate The concept of the field -- 1): theoretical itinerary -- The concept of the field -- 2): practical itinerary Field and milieu Field and interaction Field and network Field and positions -- Field and representation of the situation -- The space of objective relations and the space of interactions Field, group, population, individual Representations and practical sense -Homologies between fields -- Lecture of 11 January 1983 -- Physicalism and semiologism -- Structure as crystallised history -- Roulette and poker -- The alternatives of income or trade -Amor fad -The fertile terrain of the literary field -- Art versus method: charismatic ideology and `sociology of literature' -- The field as mediation -- Literary field and intertextuality -- A chiasmatic structure -- Automation, hierarchisation, institutionalisation -- The intellectual in the field of cultural production -- Lecture of 18 January 1983 -- The world upside down -- Field of power and field of cultural production -- Conservative intellectuals -- The law of symbolic legitimation -- Return to the struggles within the field of cultural production -- The genesis of the invariants -- The adaptation of offer to demand through homology of structure -- The conquest of autonomy -- The hierarchy of productions and the hierarchy of publics -- Lecture of 25 January 1983 -- The economic logic of cultural enterprises -- The truth of practice -- The deferred profits of disinterestedness -- The ambivalent profits of the market -- The subversion of the rules of the field -- Time-scales and `personalities' -- Clients and rivals: the mediation of the education system -- Generations and revolutions -- Modes of ageing and eternalisation -Overthrowing for the sake of overthrowing -- Orientating the self in the space of possibilities -- Trajectory and habitus -- The impious dismantling of the fiction.