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THE PIERRE BOURDIEU QUIZ

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1. Where was Bourdieu born?

Belgium

France

Finland

2. Perhaps the concept that Pierre Bourdieu is most famous for is that of:


Habitus

Habitat

Habits

3. Bourdieu's work is best characterised as:


  Methodological HolismMethodological IndividualismMethodological Relationism

4. What did Bourdieu mean by the term 'cultural capital'?

The HeadQuarters of world culture, possibly Paris

The possession of the cultural forms in a society's dominant habitus

The ability to buy priceless works of Art

5. Bourdieu's first book was based on an ethnography of:


the Kabyles (Berbers) of north Africanomads of the Peak District Australian Aborigines

6. Which is the major social institution that according to Bourdieu enacts 'symbolic violence' on members of society?

The Armed Forces

Education

The mass-media

7. What does Bourdieu mean by a 'field'? 


An area populated by pre-historic peoples before society began

A domain of investigation of an academic discipline such as sociology etc.

An arena of competition/struggle in which various forms of capital are employed and deployed by the individuals and institutions

8. What may be said to be the overall aim of Bourdieu's work?

To become personally rich through the sales of his books on the subject

To provide sociology and social science with an alternative to the structure-agency problem

To provide the French government with a means of controlling those people who lacked cultural capital

9. Who are the 'cultural intermediaries'?


People who enjoy a bit of culture  

The middle classes specifically involved in the production and dissemination of symbolic goods

The upper classes specifically involved in the production of paintings and other works of Art

10. The classical sociologist, Max Weber, used the idea of status to explain the manner in which individuals would distinguish themselves from others particularly those lower in a social hierarchy. What concept does Bourdieu substitute for Weber's?


Modern Status

Field

Symbolic Capital