更新时间:2015-11-10

社会学是种武术:Notes of Bourdieu's Words.

Inertia, social reproduction

Q: does inequality have purpose?
A: it is a politics issue, it is complicated and I can't answer it.
When you ask a scientific question, you should put politics aside. Inequality is a basic social reality and it is not right or wrong.

17:21
Ask "what are his social reasons for saying that?"

Sociology is a martial art. Like all martial arts, to be used in self-defense and any foul play is strictly forbidden

25:59
I never said he should, I say "you have to find a way to make him."
Men also suffer from chauvinism

Q: can you summarize masculine values and feminine values?
A: I never say masculine values but....
Q: Not as a sociologist, but a man.
A: I am fond of the feminine value but remember that they are largely the product of male domination
Q: they are not their own?
A: No. they are not part of women's nature. It is my personal opinion that women has properties/characteristics that are more attractive than men's. They are more ..... What I should say is "they are more likely to be like that" in a statistical way. And that's fine.
29:20

Q: What should one do to be happy?
A: I don't know
Q:So sociologists can't answer that, can give no hope, can only point out the laws?
A: He can give some answer, his personal opinion, but not as a sociologist.
Q: what is your personal opinion?
A: One must do what little on can to change things. Yes I think that is it. We all have very little scope for freedom, so everyone must do the little he can do to escape the laws, the necessities, the determinisms.

What a beautiful thing but I don't understand any. I am not poet! (haa)
(Director) he is testing you. If you don't understand the same thing he does, you can't
No, I understand that bit. But afterwards, when he says... well, whatever!
Poor old Bourdieu.

Foucault transformed them into scientific questions. He fought all his life to elaborate. There are many homosexuals but only one Foucault.
In the same way, it is not experience that leads to good sociology. The problem is how to use one's own experience in a useful way. As I always say, you have to use reflexive analysis. Sociologists have to invent their own sociology, analyzing themselves

01:07:21
it is said that a committed intellectual is involved in politics. It is not true. A committed intellectual is involved in the public arena which may be political, but without abandoning the ordinary demands of his everyday activity as a researcher.

01:08:25
That kind of generalization is intolerable to a sociologist. "Universities", all together, are like a 68-foot tortoise, they don't exist. Which universities do you mean? You need to be precise.

What we need to fight this is delicate surgery.
You can't say what you said. It is not universities in general.
I think and this is not censorship that if we talk like that, someone should answer, "Sir I agree to some extent but not wholeheartedly."

The economy of happiness
Social cost and expenses are largely underestimated.
What is social is economic.
01:16:50
Social science is already telling us that measures which seen quite rational economically... those economic measures have terrible effects, which are not secondary but primary

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"I am not a moralist. If you like being like that... but it is stupid!"

01:20:00-24:00
an interesting process of academic discussion

01:33:00 On writing
(Even Bourdieu will say) deadlines are a way of keeping control of you.
I am sorry to say but at least for the serious writing phase, writing a book takes at least three months to think. There are thousands of little decisions. "Do I use this or that?"

I think neo-liberal revolution is a conservative revolution which seems to reinstate the past, to return to the past, and yet calls itself progressive. Regression becomes progress.

I don’t feel very wise tonight.

2:01:40 Bourdieu in a political discussion with the public
We are all full of prejudice. One reason that a sociologist’s work is so difficult, is because he is also full of prejudice and he has as much of a struggle against his own as against others.
A housing estate psychiatrist? That is just insulting.
It is too easy to denounce people who are, yes, scabs. They are scabs.
(do not be anti-intellectualism)
You would get tools for understanding this. Don’t let your righteous indignation which is totally justified blind you and deprive you of the tools of understanding.
All those books help us regain our identity, the history of our parents’ generation…
If that sounds arrogant, what the hell! I am not preaching for your good. I don’t give a damn. But don’t deprive yourselves of these intellectual resources. Intellectualism is not a disease.

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