In the paper we present different approaches related to the conceptualisation of mistakes from the literature and situate them with a given methodological framework by Bourdieu. We also draw analogies with the notion of shadow capital and the relevance of applying reflexive learning as a practical means to deal with mistakes in the corporate environment.

This article analyses the way in which il caffè sospeso, an old Italian tradition giving needy people a free coffee, has become 'suspended coffee', a current trend in the United States. Theoretically, firstly, this study explains the Italian phenomenon through Bourdieu's 'classic' theory linked to food as provider of social distinction, distance from reality and culinary capital; secondly, to e...

This paper is the product of a roundtable discussion held at international conference Horizons Engagement: Eternalizing Bourdieu, organized by Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory Belgrade, Serbia, Centre Advanced Studies The University Rijeka, Croatia, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure Paris, France, French in Serbia. event was planned on occasion ninetieth anniversary birth one world?s leading s...

we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociology and politic problems. french sociologist pierre bourdieu's theory practice and symbolic power are our best resource; for understanding social and political fields. this article reviews the language and symbolic power; indicating its function in social and political fields. we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociol...

or ideal appearance of the state from its material reality, in taking for granted this distinction, will fail to understand it. the task of a theory of the state is not to clarify such distinctions but to historicize them.77 in this view, history is useful not as a reservoir of “cases” but as a reservoir of processes that help researchers overcome analytic dichotomies that were once useful but ...