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Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts Michael Grenfell
Publisher: Acumen Publishing

Pierre Bourdieu – Curriculum as 'symbolic violence' Bourdieu's best-known criticisms of the education system are his discussions of the concepts of “symbolic violence”, “Campos” “Habitus” and “Cultural capital”. Gillian Tett, in her book on the global financial crisis entitled “Fool's Gold”, points to the concept of a social silence (a concept outlined by French anthropologist/sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in his work Outline of a Theory in Practice) as a possible factor in facilitating and perpetuating the global credit boom that eventually burst with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. It would seem that these studies are key when considering Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital and Thornton's development of subcultural capital in terms of an explanation of the value of popular music. Professor Richard Jenkins was recently invited to join our PGR reading group discussion of Pierre Bourdieu. Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was a French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher. HAVANA TIMES — When I read the news about the trophy Antonio Castro had won at an international golf tournament, I could not help but bring Pierre Bourdieu to mind. We, therefore, are having a key debate for Irish society within a one-dimensional []. Thornton's work is certainly influenced by the work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu but she does not necessarily agree with it in full (Gelder 2005:145). One of the concepts he coined was that of the “distinction”. His key terms were habitus, field, and symbolic violence. He extended the idea Pierre Bourdieu developed a theory of the action, around the concept of habitus, which exerted a considerable influence in the social sciences. His best known His key terms were habitus(which is adopted through upbringing and education), capital and field.