Email this article “Social Space” of Pierre Bourdieu: History of Concept Construction
- Authors: Shmatko N.A.1, Markova Y.V.2
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Affiliations:
- HSE University
- Independent researcher
- Issue: Vol 31, No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 110-123
- Section: HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/1562-2495/article/view/287895
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/socjour.2025.31.1.6
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/PAIXKU
- ID: 287895
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The article deals with the history and interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “social space”. With the help of the concept, Bourdieu described a set of interrelated social phenomena that support and reflect each other. He defined social space as a multidimensional distribution of agents (individual or collective) over objective positions determined by the distribution of effective resources or capitals — economic, cultural, social and symbolic. Capitals conceptualize the nature of social space by introducing different dimensions into it. According to Bourdieu, social space is the result of a complex interplay of various relations that give social positions their properties. Social positions within this space do not exist separately from or prior to these relationships — they are constituted by them. The study of social space is a search for invariants. Sociology according to Bourdieu is a social topology — the understanding of spatial relations between social positions in different variations. Bourdieu’s social space not only structures sociological knowledge, but also provides methods for obtaining it.
About the authors
Natalia A. Shmatko
HSE University
Email: nshmatko@hse.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5369-0752
SPIN-code: 5411-4887
ResearcherId: J-9666-2012
Candidate of Philosophical Sciences Moscow, Russia
Yulia V. Markova
Independent researcher
Email: yulia.markova@gmail.com
SPIN-code: 1989-9345
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Independent Researcher Moscow, Russia
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