Pierre Bourdieu

In the sociology we can know various artists that represented different trend of thought. Between these schools of thought we know positivism, hermeneutical and critic theory. In the late sixties to emerge a new trend of thought called structural-constructivism.      

Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist that founded the structural-constructivism. He was born in 1930 at Denguin. Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies like cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus. He was teacher first in the institute “Moulins”, later in Argelia, París and the city of Lille. Pierre Bourdieu died in 2002 because of cancer at the age of 71.

Between his most important works we can know are “El oficio de científico” (2001), “La miseria del mundo” (1993), “autoanalisis de un sociólogo” (2004) and “El sentido práctico” (1994).

I like Pierre Bourdieu because to introduce, in the sociology, new concept that transformed the form of see the society. Finally, in my opinion, Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most important sociologists in the actuality and for he is possible to recognize different parameters present every day, in the social relationship.