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Practice, Politique, Postmodernism

The project of Bourdieu's desire is a grand sociology which realizes in part the modernist dream of a scientific objectivity hard won through its own reflexivity: "Sociology can escape to a degree [from its necessarily socially determined point of view on the social world] by drawing on it...

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Published in:Postmodern culture 1993-09, Vol.4 (1)
Main Author: Lemke, J. L. (Jay L.)
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The project of Bourdieu's desire is a grand sociology which realizes in part the modernist dream of a scientific objectivity hard won through its own reflexivity: "Sociology can escape to a degree [from its necessarily socially determined point of view on the social world] by drawing on its knowledge of the social universe in which social science is produced to control the effects of the determinisms that operate in this universe and, at the same time, bear on sociologists themselves" (67). Invitation points to the final chapter of Homo Academicus for the kernel of a theory of change and revolution, but what we find there is much less, mainly a scheme for describing moments of crisis, turning points, the visible tips of the icebergs of long-term social dynamics.
ISSN:1053-1920
1053-1920
DOI:10.1353/pmc.1993.0048