Jun 13
20130
commentsin Political sociology, Sociology of knowledge, Sociology of media
Tags Mediatic field Pierre Bourdieu Political field Symbolic capital Symbolic violence
The correspondences between political and mediatic field make the opinions expressed in the media into a reflection of the hegemonic political views. This is based on the exercise of a symbolic violence involving the imposition of some problems and censoring of others which usually would be those needing more discussion. Through this symbolic violence not only authoritative opinions are created, but also groups with voice which define how reality is seen.
Jun 10
20110
commentsin Epistemology social sciences, Social theory
Tags Immigration Material conditions Social class Social identity Social mobility Social structure Stigmatization Symbolic capital
There are two possible hypotheses explaining the mechanism of racism in situations of crisis. The first appears to be not specific to situations of crisis and suggests that when these contexts receive immigrants there are some changes in the social structure which would be analogous to upward mobility. According to the second hypothesis, the changes that are taking place in the social structure are totally opposed to what is pointed out in the previous hypothesis, involving a loss of symbolic capital of certain native classes.
