Symbolic ViolenceSymbolic ViolencePresentation of Pierre Bourdieu's Concept

by Sheri VolpePresentation of Pierre Bourdieu's Concept

by Sheri Volpe

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Pierre Felix BourdieuPierre Felix Bourdieu•Born August 1, 1930, Denguin,

Southern France, and died January 23, 2002

•Son of postal worker

•Educated at Lycee Louis-le-Grand in Paris and Ecole Normale Superieure

•Lecturer in Algiers during Algerian War in 1958-1962

•One of France's most prominent sociologists/intellectuals

•His work reflects French society during the 1960s

TerminologyTerminology•Symbolic violence - practices of social/cultural

domination

•Soft power - actions having discriminatory/injurious meaning (gender, racism)

•Capital - resource enabling domination (social, body, cultural, political)

•Habitus - internalized form of social class condition (how people react to cultural stimuli)

•Field - social space

Habitus Capital Field+ =Symbolic Violence&

•Social weapon of domination (discrimination, censorship) (Knox, 2012).

•"Covert forms of soft violence which include the 'emotional control' people exercise over other people at the interpersonal level, in what some people commonly refer to as playing 'mind games'...”(Colaguori, 2010).

•"Our own worldviews influence how we approach information, be it in a book, a database, or a cultural artifact, and how we as professionals present the information to society" (Hussey, 2010).

Symbolic ViolenceSymbolic Violence

Symbolic Violence & Information Seeking Studies

Symbolic Violence & Information Seeking Studies•“The Meaning of Service” (Bouthillier,

2000) Service practices and how services help to reinforce the social structure

•“The Library, Praxis, and Symbolic Power” (Budd, 2003) and “Libraries and Cultural Capital” (Goulding, 2008)

The role of librarians as creators/purveyors of cultural capital and symbolic power

•“Social Field, Domains of Knowledge and Informational Practice” (Nascimento and Marteleto, 2008)

The role of social fields and their influence on information-seeking behavior

ReferencesReferencesBouthillier, F. (2000, August). The meaning of service: Ambiguities and dilemmas for public

library service providers. Library and Information Science Research, 22(3), 243-272. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0740-8188(99)00055-9

Budd, J. (2003). The library, praxis, and symbolic power. Library Quarterly, 73(1), 19-32.

Colaguori, C. (2010, June). Symbolic violence and the violation of human rights: Continuing the sociological critique of domination. International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory, 3(2), 388-400.

Goulding, A. (2008, December). Libraries and cultural capital. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 40(4), 235-237. doi:10.1177/0961000608096713

Hussey, L. (2010). Social capital, symbolic violence, and fields of cultural production: Pierre Bourdieu and library and information science. In G. Leckie, L. Given & J. Buschman, (Eds.) Critical theory of library and information science: exploring the social from across the disciplines. (pp. 41-52). Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.

Knox, E. (2012). The discourse of censorship: Understanding the worldview of challengers. (Doctoral dissertation, Rutgers). Retrieved from http://mss3.libraries.rutgers.edu/dlr/outputds.php?pid=rutgerslib:38897&mime=application/pdf&ds=PDF-1

Nascimento, D., & Marteleto, R. (2008). Social field, domains of knowledge and informational practice. Journal of Documentation, 64(3), 397-412. doi:10.1108/00220410810867605

Bouthillier, F. (2000, August). The meaning of service: Ambiguities and dilemmas for public library service providers. Library and Information Science Research, 22(3), 243-272. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0740-8188(99)00055-9

Budd, J. (2003). The library, praxis, and symbolic power. Library Quarterly, 73(1), 19-32.

Colaguori, C. (2010, June). Symbolic violence and the violation of human rights: Continuing the sociological critique of domination. International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory, 3(2), 388-400.

Goulding, A. (2008, December). Libraries and cultural capital. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 40(4), 235-237. doi:10.1177/0961000608096713

Hussey, L. (2010). Social capital, symbolic violence, and fields of cultural production: Pierre Bourdieu and library and information science. In G. Leckie, L. Given & J. Buschman, (Eds.) Critical theory of library and information science: exploring the social from across the disciplines. (pp. 41-52). Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.

Knox, E. (2012). The discourse of censorship: Understanding the worldview of challengers. (Doctoral dissertation, Rutgers). Retrieved from http://mss3.libraries.rutgers.edu/dlr/outputds.php?pid=rutgerslib:38897&mime=application/pdf&ds=PDF-1

Nascimento, D., & Marteleto, R. (2008). Social field, domains of knowledge and informational practice. Journal of Documentation, 64(3), 397-412. doi:10.1108/00220410810867605