Pierre Bourdieu and Latin America

Abstract

Pierre Bourdieu was probably one of the last exponents of a sociology that has become increasingly rare today within the dominant theoretical orientations. His was a sociology that was clearly and clearly inscribed in the classical sociological tradition, and I am not referring to a nineteenth century sociology but to that tradition for which sociology was first and foremost a fundamentally scientific discipline, whose object was a clearly delimited field of phenomena, irreducible to other perspectives, and in which the conceptual effort was translated into a general theory of universal scope. In this sense, it shares with classical sociology those same convictions that we might identify as the enlightened component of sociology.