Field of power: analysis of elites in the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu's theory 3700-KON191-AL

On the completion of the seminar the student:
- Has a good knowledge of the notion of the social field, and related notions in the sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu.
- Has an ability to differentiate between different approaches to the study of elites
- Has an ability to analyze a wide spectre of phenomena, milieus and social institutions in terms of the social field.
- Has an ability to analyze a configuration of elite milieus in terms of the structure of social field.
- Has an ability to analyze genesis of fields of power in selected countries, in particular in Poland.
- Has an ability to analyze social space with the use of correspondence analysis.

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- Hilgers, Mathieu and Eric Mangez, eds. 2014. Bourdieu's Theory of Social Fields: Concepts and Applications. London: Routledge.
- Wacquant, Loïc J.D. 1993. "From Ruling Class to Field of Power: An Interview with Pierre Bourdieu on La Noblesse D'état." Theory, Culture & Society 10(3), s. 19-44.
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- Bourdieu, Pierre. 1983. The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed. "Poetics" 12, s. 311-356.
- Bourdieu, Pierre. 2004. From the King's House to the Reason of State: A Model of the Genesis of the Bureaucratic Field. "Constellations" 11, s. 16-36.
- Bourdieu, Pierre. 1999. Rethinking the state: Genesis and structure of the bureaucratic field. W: G. Steinmetz (red.) State/culture: state-formation after the cultural turn. Ihaka: Cornell University Press. s. 53-75.
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- Hjellbrekke, Johs, Brigitte Le Roux, Olav Korsnes, Frédéric Lebaron, Lennart Rosenlund and Henry Rouanet. 2007. "The Norwegian Field of Power Anno 2000." European Societies 9(2):245-73
- Cohen, Antonin. 2011. "Bourdieu Hits Brussels: The Genesis and Structure of the European Field of Power." International Political Sociology 5(3):335-39.
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- Lewin, Kurt. 1997. Resolving Social Conflicts & Field Theory in Social Science. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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- Heilbron, Johan. 2014. "The Social Sciences as an Emerging Global Field." Current Sociology 62(5): s.685-703.
- Lebaron, Frédéric. 2001. "Economists and the Economic Order: The Field of Economists and the Field of Power in France." European Societies 3(1). S. 91-110.

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