International Social Science Journal (Chinese Edition)

No.2, 2024

Bourdieu’s Sociological Criticism

(Abstract)

Liu Hui

Bourdieu, a contemporary French sociologist, followed the general methodology of Marxist sociology to establish the theory of generative structure with the three major concepts of champ, habitus, and capital, and revealed the conditions of production and reception of literary and artistic works through empirical studies of literary and artistic practices, which not only integrated the aesthetics of reception with the production of poetics, but also provided a mode of action for the political system through the paradigm of the literary field, and established sociological criticism as a social critique.