Key Thinkers: Ghassan Hage on Pierre Bourdieu

[@etr420]

If you listen carefully to Prof. Hage, engage with what he's saying, this is a beautifully clear explanation that will save a lot of time if you're coming to Bourdieu without much background.

[@suchetabhuisi318786]

Loved it, thank you for explaining transformation of passivity into activity with the baby example so beautifully!

[@JoseAngelHernandez-PhD]

That paragraph that this lecture starts with in self-explanatory in my humble opinion and basically says that your actions are informed by your family , your culture , your past , and your civilization, and the actions that you take are there for structured upon these prevailing structures, or practices. The kinds of cultural practices that you have are there for somewhat unconscious and are not orchestrated deliberately but done in an unconscious and unknowing fashion.

[@spinophrenic3775]

Yes, Bourdieu's texts are written in french academic style but they are not obscure nor misleading, Bourdieu means what he writes but the style is very difficult for people who aren't used to it. Same for Foucault really, very sharp style and clear writing, yet I wouldn't expect everyone to read it.

[@sergiopaulo3412]

This is the best lecture about Bourdieu

[@hanc4632]

Thank you Prof. Hage. This is wonderful.

[@rushout08]

Excellent explanation with some important clues to "understand" Bourdieu

[@raniaelkhayat2747]

I am struggling with Bourdieu at the moment. Thanks for making things a little easier.

[@akeem1221]

It is a year since you wrote this, I am sitting in the middle of Essay and I have no idea what Bourdieu did. Suck!

[@dogsarefab]

This is brilliant and made me laugh. Thank you for getting me out of the rut I've got stuck in, in my essay! Hopefully I can now get this done! I have so much to do!

[@eriansubuga7775]

Wow!! Great guy Ghassan Hage!

[@josephinev2327]

This is great!

[@dehabamine2322]

I think you are great.

[@dogsarefab]

I've heard as far as sociology goes, awesome beards are the way forward!! I wish this was live I have so many questions!

[@anialiandr]

fabulous

[@masneri97]

This is the way

[@karakoima]

The automatic translations KZbin does for “Bourdieu” are hillarious, latest “Buddha” .. . Seriously, the lecture here do give me some hope a poor civil engineer from a unfancy Stockholm suburb reading “Practical Reaason” has been able to understand some Bourdieu… its spot on what I felt. Maybe I get a clue to some of the hatred that goes on btw the “champagne socialists” and the “half-nazis” here in our country. As well as my own stupid behaviour. I wonder two things : 1. How does personality traits act together with environment to create the habitus? Or rather is th Habitus a personal or a social term? 2. How much of Bourdieus thoughts do influence the research being done at this time in sociological in institutions around the world?

[@mathewtoll6780]

Very interesting.

[@fadi_86]

Mathew Toll In what way Mr. Toll? ps. you look cute in your dp :)

[@mathewtoll6780]

It was a while since I watched it. But there is a section where he talks a out the social evaluations of different ways of being.

[@merko861]

RIP Pierre Bourdieu

[@alhawaritalbi6371]

this anti-spunky lecturer needs a stiff drink to relax!

[@sebastianaguiarbrunemeier9192]

It sounds like a lot of straightforward, well-understood, common sense ideas dressed up in obfuscatory language. I don't see anything particularly insightful here

[@emyrkreishan701]

670,000+ citations - one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. Bourdieu's theoretical tool kit has been applied in almost every discipline. You must be trolling.

[@myothersoul1953]

I completely agree. The ideas are banal and the language is purposely impentritable. Why? It could be "French Intellectual narcissism" but I think it's more an attempt to hide not having anything interesting to say.

[@dehabamine2322]

​@@myothersoul1953 One must have a certain level of knowledge and thinking capacity to make a sense out of it. So it seems that your incapability is playing with you.

[@myothersoul1953]

@@dehabamine2322 Yes and one must also have a certain mental capacity to understand the criticism isn't that it doesn't make sense but rather that pain simple and well known ideas that make sense don't need to be dressed up in such complex, vague and complicated language.

[@dehabamine2322]

@@myothersoul1953 'complex, vague, complicated' all relative. Also, well known terms can be understood and elaborated differently. I suspect that you don't get the depth of the issues discussed which is why u think its banality with too nice dress.