His most well-known book uses the French population of the 1960s to examine the way social power and prestige affects taste.
This man theorized that "misrecognition" can cause people to not realize that socially powerful agents are employing "soft" or "symbolic violence." He suggested that this "violence" is enacted by those who have received prestige or "symbolic capital" from entrenched societal institutions. He adapted Mauss's concept of "body technique" to describe the set of dispositions accumulated through upbringing and education. He eschewed Marx's classes to coin a term for social arenas in which agents compete for economic and cultural resources. This developer of "habitus" and "field" concepts used the Kabyle culture to illustrate methods of social anthropology in his Outline of a Theory of Practice. His most well-known book uses the French population of the 1960s to examine the way social power and prestige affects taste. For 10 points, name this French sociologist and author of Distinction.
This man theorized that "misrecognition" can cause people to not realize that socially powerful agents are employing "soft" or "symbolic violence."
Pierre {Bourdieu}