The thought of Pierre Bourdieu: Notes for an archaeological look

Abstract

Pierre Bourdieu is one of the contemporary theorists most studied in different fields of social sciences social action because its principles are invited to overcome the contradictions or the classic dualisms of traditional sociology (objectivism / subjectivism, structure / agency, individual / society, matter / idea micro / macro, qualitative / quantitative) and that has been identified with overcoming determinism and sustancialismos, building more relational and procedural approaches. Its main theoretical influences come from Marxism, French structuralism, the philosophies of Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Raymond Aron and Ludwig Wittgenstein; including French epistemological tradition, which emphasizes non-positivism and anti-evolutionism.