Pierre Bourdieu between Philosophical Foundation and Sociological Reproduction

Abstract

This research paper examines the philosophical-sociological project of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most prominent thinkers to bring philosophy and sociology together. Bourdieu sought to establish a critical perspective that reveals the relationship between knowledge and power within society,drawing upon an intellectual and philosophical background shaped by Marxism,structuralism, and phenomenology. However,he moved beyond these frameworks towards an analysis of social reality and the dlisclosure of the mechanisms of symbolic domination through a conceptual apparatus comprising fundamental notions such as cultural capital,habitus,symbolic capital, and the social field. Bourdieu's significance, therefore,lies in his transition from a theoretical philosophical foundation to the construction of a critical sociology.