The central thread of Bernard Lahire’s empirical sociology

Authors

  • Sofia Lai Amândio CIES-IUL / Centre Max Weber (CNRS) - Université de Lyon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP2014763384

Keywords:

Bernard Lahire, Pierre Bourdieu, Ator Plural

Abstract

Bernard Lahire is one of the most widely recognised sociologists currently working on the tradition of Pierre Bourdieu. In the last few decades he has invested in an exercise in which he has gradually built up a body of criticism of Bourdieu’s work, based on a variety of empirical observatories, such as education, culture and literature. This article seeks to outline the central thread of Lahire’s work, focusing primarily on the empirical bases for the Plural Actor concept, its theoretical systematisation and the political implications in terms of a Sociology on an Individual Scale, which is founded on an extension of the habitus theory.

Author Biography

Sofia Lai Amândio, CIES-IUL / Centre Max Weber (CNRS) - Université de Lyon

Sofia Amândio, licenciada e mestre em Sociologia pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, é doutoranda no CIES-IUL/ Centre Max Weber (CNRS)-Université de Lyon, tendo já lecionado Teorias Sociológicas no âmbito da Licenciatura de Sociologia da Université Lumière Lyon 2.

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Published

2014-07-07

Issue

No. 76 (2014)

Section

Artigos

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