bourdieu and symbolic power

Symbolic Power without Symbolic Violence?

During recent decades social theory has struggled with the attempt to overcome both subjectivist and structuralist conceptions. In this effort, actors have been understood to construct social reality through their practices. Thus, social practices are socially constructed at the same time. Neither subjects nor objects existed prior to this work of construction; the nature of reality is therefor...

Symbolic Power in Cultural Contexts SYMBOLIC POWER IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

Social Space and Symbolic Power

The Power of Symbolic Automata and Transducers

Symbolic automata and transducers extend finite automata and transducers by allowing transitions to carry predicates and functions over rich alphabet theories, such as linear arithmetic. Therefore, these models extend their classic counterparts to operate over infinite alphabets, such as the set of rational numbers. Due to their expressiveness, symbolic automata and transducers have been used t...

The Social Construction of Power : Reflections Beyond Berger/Luckmann and Bourdieu

This paper emphasizes the specific theoretical potential of Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality for an analysis of the construction and constitution of power. In contrast to certain criticisms, as formulated for example by Pierre Bourdieu, which reproach the authors for being oblivious of power, it is shown that Berger and Luckmann’s theoretical apparatus in...

The New Durkheim: Bourdieu and the State

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