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Words also make us: Enhancing the sociology of embodiment with cultural psychology:

01 Feb 2020-European Journal of Social Theory (SAGE PublicationsSage UK: London, England)-Vol. 23, Iss: 1, pp 15-32
TL;DR: In this article, an operational theory for a complete analysis of early socialization processes is proposed, which is based on the idea of the early socialisation process as an ontology.
Abstract: We still lack an operational theory for a complete analysis of early socialization processes. Bourdieu has stressed their bodily dimension but has done so at the expense of more symbolic aspects. T...
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01 Jan 2012-Politix
TL;DR: The authors examines personal storytelling as practiced by working-class children and their families and concludes that the working class perspective encourages children to see that they have the right and resources to narrate their own experiences in self-dramatizing ways, but that the right to be heard and to have one's point of view accepted cannot be taken for granted.
Abstract: Framed within recent developments in gender theory, this paper examines personal storytelling as practiced by working-class children and their families. Although both working-class and middle-class children encounter versions of oral storytelling that embody a personal perspective, these versions privilege different slants on experience. Drawing on a program of research that spans several decades and two European American working-class communities, we attempt to characterize the working-class perspective in its own terms, not simply as a departure from a middle-class standard. We conclude that the working-class perspective encourages children to see that they have the right and resources to narrate their own experiences in self-dramatizing ways, but that the right to be heard and to have one’s point of view accepted cannot be taken for granted.

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TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographical study of symbolic violence is presented, focusing on how to learn to perform symbolic violence in an ethnographic way through an ethnological study of the people who perform it.
Abstract: Symbolic violence is not just a structural phenomenon, but also a social performance. How do we learn to perform it? The question is most appropriately addressed through an ethnographical study of ...

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  • ...(For a full discussion of the Vygotskyan legacy for the study of socialization, see Lignier, 2018)....

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01 Jan 1980
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood.
Abstract: Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the principle which negotiates between objective structures and practices, Bourdieu is able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world. The author draws on his fieldwork in Kabylia (Algeria) to illustrate his theoretical propositions. With detailed study of matrimonial strategies and the role of rite and myth, he analyses the dialectical process of the 'incorporation of structures' and the objectification of habitus, whereby social formations tend to reproduce themselves. A rigorous consistent materialist approach lays the foundations for a theory of symbolic capital and, through analysis of the different modes of domination, a theory of symbolic power.

21,227 citations

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01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings, and only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can be grasped.
Abstract: Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor;" has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture. (http://books.google.fr/books?id=YHt_M41uIuUC&pg=PA157&dq=Bruner,+J.+%281990%29.+Acts+of+meaning&hl=fr&ei=EwOXTrqpCsPWsgaGgO2YBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false)

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"Words also make us: Enhancing the s..." refers background in this paper

  • ...To this end, Jerome Bruner has proposed considering the role of narratives in daily socialization (Bruner, 1990, 1996)....

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  • ...(Bruner, 1990: 97) Bruner himself did not really translate his views on narratives as practical vectors of socialization into empirical investigations....

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01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: In this article, the economy of language exchange and its relation to political power is discussed. But the authors focus on the production and reproduction of Legitimate language and do not address its application in the theory of political power.
Abstract: Preface Editor's Introduction General Introduction Part I The Economy of Linguistic Exchanges Introduction 1. The Production and Reproduction of Legitimate Language 2. Price Formation and the Anticipation of Profits Appendix: Did You Say 'Popular'? Part II The Social Institution of Symbolic Power Introduction 3. Authorized Language: The Social Conditions for the Effectiveness of Ritual Discourse 4. Rites of Institution 5. Description and Prescription: The Conditions of Possibility and the Limits of Political Effectiveness 6. Censorship and the Imposition of Form Part III Symbolic Power and the Political Field 7. On Symbolic Power 8. Political Representation: Elements for a Theory of the Political Field 9. Delegation and Political Fetishism 10. Identity and Representation: Elements for a Critical Reflection on the Idea of Region 11. Social Space and the Genesis of 'Classes' Note Index

9,970 citations

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TL;DR: From aphasics' self records, common experience, changes in signification of sentences according to a verbal or non-verbal context, animals and non speaking children performances, it seems possible to get some evidence that thought is distinct from language even though there is a permanent interaction between both in normal adult human beings.
Abstract: From aphasics' self records, common experience, changes in signification of sentences according to a verbal or non-verbal context, animals and non speaking children performances, it seems possible to get some evidence that thought is distinct from language even though there is a permanent interaction between both in normal adult human beings. Some considerations on formalisation of language suggests that the more formalised it is, the less information it contains. If it is true, it is not reasonable to hope that a formalised language like that used by computers may be a model for thought. Finally, the lack of status of thought, as far as it is a subjective experience and the impossibility of giving it a definition as far as it exceeds language, make it clear that in spite of progress in scientific psychology, thought, per se, is not an object for science.

6,581 citations


"Words also make us: Enhancing the s..." refers background in this paper

  • ...The Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) is generally considered the initiator of this cultural psychology, notably for his efforts to overcome the Piagetian view of child development without falling into strict materialism (Vygotsky, [1934] 1986)....

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  • ...First, I will build on ‘cultural psychology’, which was developed by the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, and holds that what can be called the ‘practical language’ of daily life is crucial for child development....

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  • ...The Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) is generally considered the initiator of this cultural psychology, notably for his efforts to overcome the Piagetian view of child development without falling into strict materialism (Vygotsky, [1934] 1986). Vygotsky is often quoted in many studies regarding child development as a general theoretical resource, although scholars rarely discuss his views in detail, and therefore often miss his very precise reflections on the role of language in child development. Vygotsky’s study of the formation of concepts in infancy, though very specific in its scope, seems of particular importance for the inclusion of language in a practical approach to socialization (see Vygotsky, [1934] 1986: 96–145; Blunden, 2011)....

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  • ...Piaget’s socialization (Vygotsky, [1934] 1986), we shall argue that we are social from the very...

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