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This book is the first of three volumes of HabitusAnalysis that take the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu as a starting point to develop a methodical approach to the habitus of social actors. However, the concept of habitus and Bourdieu's approach to language are somewhat disputed while his relationist epistemology is seldom paid tribute to. The present volume therefore in its first part deals with Bourdieu's roots in relationist Neo-Kantian philosophy, the basic traits of his relationist sociology. The second part examines Bourdieu's theoretical and empirical work on language before elaborating its own praxeological concept of language use that opens the road to a methodically and theoretically sound reconstruction of the habitus of social actors. In the second volume of HabitusAnalysis we will carefully re-read Bourdieu's theory in order to develop a disposition-based theory of the habitus that emphasizes the creative potential of the linkage between mental orientations and socio-structural processes, classification and classes, as well as dispositions and positions. The method presented in the third volume will facilitate a detailed empirical analysis of the creative transformations operated by the habitus in relation with the social structures of domination and the dynamics of social differentiation.
List of contents
Substances and relations - premises in epistemology.- Subject, object, mind and matter - coordinates of praxeology.- Meaning as praxis - language and signs.
About the author
Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinrich Schäfer, Theologe und Soziologe, Universität Bielefeld, seit 2006. 1995 bis 2003 theologische sowie soziologische Lehre und Forschung in den meisten Ländern Lateinamerikas mit institutionellem Sitz in Costa Rica, in Kooperation mit verschiedenen Forschungsinstituten, der UNO und der lateinamerikanischen Pfingstbewegung. Zwischen 1998 und 2003 Mitarbeit in einer interkulturellen Forschungsgruppe über die Rolle von Religionen an den Reibungspunkten kultureller, ökonomischer und politischer Globalisierung sowie über Möglichkeiten interreligiösen Dialogs, Weltkirchenrat, Genf. 1992 bis 1994 Lehrauftrag für ökumenischen Theologie, Bochum. 1983, 1985 und 1986 Feldforschung über Pfingstbewegung und Protestantismus in den Bürgerkriegen Mittelamerikas und in den USA. Schwerpunkte: religiöse Identitäten und Strategien, Identitätspolitiken, kulturelle Globalisierung, Religion und Konflikt, Fundamentalismus, Pfingstbewegung; Soziologie Pierre Bourdieus.
Summary
This book is the first of three volumes of HabitusAnalysis that take the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu as a starting point to develop a methodical approach to the habitus of social actors. However, the concept of habitus and Bourdieu’s approach to language are somewhat disputed while his relationist epistemology is seldom paid tribute to. The present volume therefore in its first part deals with Bourdieu’s roots in relationist Neo-Kantian philosophy, the basic traits of his relationist sociology. The second part examines Bourdieu’s theoretical and empirical work on language before elaborating its own praxeological concept of language use that opens the road to a methodically and theoretically sound reconstruction of the habitus of social actors. In the second volume of HabitusAnalysis we will carefully re-read Bourdieu’s theory in order to develop a disposition-based theory of the habitus that emphasizes the creative potential of the linkage between mental orientations and socio-structural processes, classification and classes, as well as dispositions and positions. The method presented in the third volume will facilitate a detailed empirical analysis of the creative transformations operated by the habitus in relation with the social structures of domination and the dynamics of social differentiation.
