| Titre | L'espace positionnel : multiplicité des positions institutionnelles et habitus de classe | |
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| Auteur | Luc Boltanski | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1973, 14-1 | |
| Page | 3-26 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Luc Boltanski : The positional field : the multiplicity of institutional positions and class habitus.
The problems raised by such a technically simple operation as census, according to the position within the social structure of the members of the Academic staff of the Institut d'Etudes politiques of Paris, lead to considerations about multipositionality as a socially conditionned ability to hold simultaneously several social positions in one or different fields. After examining the methodological implications of multipositionality in relation to the elaboration of the survey samples dealing with the ruling class, i.e. « elites », the author attempts to determine the nature of the social structure created by multiplicity of institutional positions and thus, the type of habitus necessary in order to adopt behaviours consistent with needs objectively inscribed in each position they occupy. Finally, by an analysis of law vocabulary which institutionalizes the distinction between the agents and their social positions, we have tried to specify the functions filled, in the ruling work, by the multipositionality, by comparing the structure of the ruling class produced by individual's positional multiplicity with the formal model (illustrated by the cast system) of societies in which each agent is assigned to one and only one institutional position. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1973_num_14_1_2176 |
