BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event: Bourdieu and Passeron
Monday 17 June 2013,
BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London SW6 2PY
Pierre Bourdieu and
Jean-Claude Passeron co-authored many works together most noticeably
The Inheritors (1964 [1979]) and
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
(1970, [1977]). The co-authorship of Bourdieu and Passeron undoubtedly
was influenced by a common project within competing Western European
traditions of philosophy of social science. Bourdieu and Passeron ceased
to collaborate in about 1972. Bourdieu in the following thirty years
until his death in 2002 enjoyed an international reputation.
The intention of this event is to carry out an initial examination of
the co-authored works as well as study the recent production of
Passeron’s translated
Le Raisonnement Sociologique (1991) –
Sociological Reasoning (2013).
Sociological Reasoning
highlights the differences between the approaches of Passeron and
Bourdieu as well as exemplifies how Passeron distinguishes himself with
the contention that there can be differences of intellectual and
artistic production in spite of similarities of social trajectory
(Robbins, 2013, p.18).
The event will be broken up into a series of key note talks by
Prof Derek Robbins (
UEL) and
Dr Simon Susen (
City University)
as well as workshops. In the workshops participants will discuss
various texts (given beforehand) and engage specifically with their
differences in relation to social, cultural and educational
reproduction. This will give concrete examples of the different views of
Bourdieu and Passeron about the nature of social science.
Timetable:
11.00: Refreshments 11.30: Session 1: Prof Derek
Robbins will give a background to the work of Pierre Bourdieu and
Jean-Claude Passeron between 1960 and 1972, and background to the
subsequent development of Jean-Claude Passeron’s work leading to Sociological Reasoning.
12.45 – 13.45: Lunch
13.45: Session 2: Dr Simon Susen on Bourdieu and
Science illustrating the shared interest in epistemology and methodology
between Passeron and Bourdieu.
15.00: Refreshments.
15.30: Session 3: Workshops on Pierre Bourdieu: “Cultural reproduction and social reproduction” (1973) and Jean-Claude Passeron: “Hegel, or the stowaway” (Chapter 4 of Sociological Reasoning). These workshops and discussions will be related to Bourdieu and Passeron’s: Reproduction in Education, Society, and Culture (1977).
17.15-17.30: Closing remarks
Delegate fees (Lunch & refreshments included):
BSA Members: £20.00,
Non-members: £30.00
To register please go to: http://
www.britsoc.co.uk/events
For further information Email: events@britsoc.org.uk or Tel. (0191) 383 0839
(Source: Bourdieu Study Group)
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