"Lectures at the College de France (1983-1984)."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-364) and index.

Lecture of 1 March 1984 -- First Session: (lecture): preamble on the teaching of sociology -- Lector and auctor -- The field-habitus duo -- System, field and subfields -- The field of the fields -- The structure of distribution of specific capital -- The institutionalization of the functioning of the field -- Second Session: (seminar): the hit parade of the intellectuals (1) -- A symbolic coup -- The overrepresentation of fuzzy categories and the question of competence -- Instituting the judges -- Adopting a standpoint on the standpoints adopted -- The universalization of individual judgements -- Producers for producers and producers for non-producers -- Lecture of 8 March 1984 -- First Session: the hit parade of the intellectuals (2) -- Wrong questions and right answers -- The models of the market and the trial -- Concrete individual and constructed individual -- The issues of visibility and titles -- Inventing the jury -- Position of the journalistic subfield within the field of cultural production -- Defining the rules of the game -- Second Session: the hit parade of the intellectuals (3) -- The model of the trial -- The model of the market -- Value judgement -- Establishing differences -- Producing the producers -- Lecture of 15 March 1984 -- First Session: (lecture): preamble on social understanding -- Does a field have a starting point? -- Rules and regularities. The process of objectification -- The interest of following the rules -- The spontaneist position and the continuist position -- The passage from discontinuous universes to continuous universes -- Second Session: (seminar): the hit parade of the intellectuals (4) -- The margin of liberty of symbolic action -- The duplication effect of symbolic power -- The specificity of symbolic action -- Political prediction -- Lecture of 22 March 1984 -- First Session: (lecture): responses to questions -- Interest in the wider sense -- Is the subfield a simple change of scale? -- Is business a field? -- The field as subject of social actions -- Second Session: (seminar); Kafka's The Trial -- The Trial and the search for identity -- Recognition in weakly objectified fields -- Lecture of 29 March 1984 -- First Session: (lecture): the model of the gambler -- Immanent tendencies to reproduction in the social world -- Comparison between societies and continuity of the social world -- Differentiating between fields and objectification of capital -- Violence and its euphemization -- Second Session: (seminar): Kafka's The Trial (2) -- The manipulation of the illusio and chance -- Power and time -- Lecture of 19 April 1984 -- First Session: (lecture): the field and species of capital -- The relation to time -- Species and forms of capital -- The three forms of cultural capital -- Human capital and cultural capital -- Cultural capital as incorporated capital. Parenthesis on philosophy and the social world -- Second Session: (seminar): Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- The timescale of someone waiting for nothing -- The social world as self-evident -- Principles of continuity of the social world in different societies -- Lecture of 26 April 1984 -- First Session: (lecture): educational space and forms -- Distribution of capital and profits of distinction -- Cultural capital objectified and appropriated -- Means of production and cultural capital -- The legitimate appropriation of cultural works -- Second Session: (seminar): time and power. Acting on structures and acting on representations -- Symbolic action -- The reassuring role of the rule -- Time and the exercise of power -- Lecture of 3 May 1984 -- First Session: (lecture): Sartre and `canned thought' -- Thinking the trivial -- Reappropriating cultural capital -- Generic alienation and specific alienation -- The institutionalized state of cultural capital -- Second Session: (seminar): delegation and representation (1). The delegation relation -- The representation relation -- The fable of the Societe des agreges -- Lecture of 10 May 1984 -- First Session: (lecture): educational qualifications, discontinuities and bureaucracy -- `Information capital' -- Codification and logical control -- The officialization effect of formalization -- Vis formae, the force of form -- Second Session: (answers to questions and seminar): towards a history of the technologies of thought -- Delegation and representation (2) -- The structural hypocrisy of the delegate -- Homology and the coup double -- Constituents and representative bodies -- Lecture of 17 May 1984 -- First Session: (lecture): the effect of forms -- An analysis of discipline -- The ambiguity of discipline -- An ethnocentrism of the universal -- Second Session: (answers to questions and seminar): the problem of historical parallels -- The coherence of the lectures -- Historical parallels (`that reminds me of.') -- The false eternity of academic debates -- Situating the Third and Later Volumes of General Sociology in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu / Julien Duval.

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