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Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field

Bourdieu, Pierre, Wacquant, Loic J. D., Farage, Samar·1994·Sociological Theory

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Tenter de penser l'Etat, c'est courir le risque d'appliquer des categories de pensee produites par l'Etat lui-meme et de meconnaitre sa verite profonde. Pour etayer sa proposition, l'A. tente de montrer les limites de l'independance des sciences sociales vis-a-vis de l'Etat. Puis il decrit celui-ci comme lieu de concentration de quatre types de capital : pouvoir de coercition ; capital economique ; capital informationnel ; capital symbolique. Ce dernier point est developpe en retracant la genese de principes de categorisations du monde, donnes comme universels, mais relevant de la construction symbolique associee a la constitution de l'Etat. Cette etude de la position monopolisante de l'Etat se conclut sur une description du microcosme bureaucratique qu'est la « noblesse d'Etat »

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Authors
Bourdieu, P., Wacquant, L. J. D., & Farage, S.
Venue
Sociological Theory
Publisher
JSTOR
Published
1994-03
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
1
ISSN
0735-2751 (ISSN-L)
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en
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