The Tricky ’True Object’: Bourdieu’s Masculine Domination and Historicity

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  • Miklos Hadas Corvinus University of Budapest, Institute of Sociology

https://doi.org/10.17583/mcs.2016.2029

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Pierre Bourdieu’s Masculine Domination was published in English in 2001, three years after the appearance of the French version. In order to deconstruct in vivo the working of sociological paradigm-alchemy, a close reading of the Bourdieusian argument is offered. After summing up the main thesis of the book, Bourdieu’s statements will be intended to be questioned, according to which the school, the family, the state and the church would reproduce, in the long run, masculine domination. The paper will also seek to identify the methodological trick of the Bourdieusian vision on history, namely that, metaphorically speaking, he compares the streaming river to the riverside cliffs. It will be argued that when Bourdieu discusses ‘the constancy of habitus’, the ‘permanence in and through change’, or the ‘strength of the structure’, he extends his paradigm about the displacement of the social structure to the displacement of the men/women relationship. Hence, it will be suggested that, in opposition to Bourdieu’s thesis, masculine domination is not of universal validity but its structural weight and character have fundamentally changed in the long run, i.e. the masculine habitual centre gradually shifted from a social practice governed by the drives of physical violence to symbolic violence.

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Miklos Hadas, Corvinus University of Budapest, Institute of Sociology

professor of sociology

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2016-10-21

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Hadas, M. (2016). The Tricky ’True Object’: Bourdieu’s Masculine Domination and Historicity. Masculinities &Amp; Social Change, 5(3), 210–240. https://doi.org/10.17583/mcs.2016.2029

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