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The Dynamics of Inequality and Habitus Formation: Elias, Bourdieu, and the Rise of Nationalist Populism
Die Dynamiken von Ungleichheit und Herausbildung von Habitus: Elias, Bourdieu und der Aufstieg des nationalen Populismus
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Abstract This article deals with the dynamics of social inequality and social stratification from a historical-sociological perspective. It purports to clarify basic problems in this field with the help of insights developed by sociologists Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu. I systematically compare both thi... mehr
This article deals with the dynamics of social inequality and social stratification from a historical-sociological perspective. It purports to clarify basic problems in this field with the help of insights developed by sociologists Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu. I systematically compare both thinkers’ ideas on the dynamics of inequality, pointing out similarities and divergences, and critically discuss them. After a summary of basic notions in their work, the paper deals subsequently with the reproduction of inequality in connection with habitus formation; changes in inequality structures over time - more specifically, trends of de-creasing inequality (functional democratisation) and increasing inequality (functional de-democratisation); and the causal connections between changes in inequality structures and changes in habitus, mentality, and ideology. The final section of the paper focuses on a current issue: the emergence of populism in contemporary Western societies. On the basis of the preceding argument, I advance a tentative explanation of the rise of nationalist populism in the context of tendencies of increasing socioeconomic inequality.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Elias, N.; Habitus; Macht; soziale Schichtung; Populismus; soziale Klasse; Bourdieu, P.; soziale Ungleichheit
Klassifikation
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
power resources
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 22-42
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 42 (2017) 4
Heftthema
Changing Power Relations and the Drag Effects of Habitus
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.42.2017.4.22-42
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)