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    Proper recognition: Personhood and symbolic capital in contemporary sociology

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    Mead, G
    Date
    2020-06-27
    Source Title
    Current Sociology
    Publisher
    SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Mead, Geoffrey
    Affiliation
    School of Social and Political Sciences
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    Document Type
    Journal Article
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    Mead, G. (2020). Proper recognition: Personhood and symbolic capital in contemporary sociology. CURRENT SOCIOLOGY, https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392120932943.
    Access Status
    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/258484
    DOI
    10.1177/0011392120932943
    Abstract
    Sociologists maintain an ambivalent relationship to the category of the person, even more so at a time when the category is deemed insufficient for analysis yet appears increasingly significant within the world it purports to capture. This article begins with this ascending significance of the person in the neoliberal world of work, where the personal accumulation of skills and devolution of responsibility to individuals are privileged. Theoretical approaches to personhood attempt to respond to these changed conditions, with the work of Pierre Bourdieu often thought incapable of properly explaining such contemporary phenomena. In response, this article approaches personhood through the frame of Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic capital, those properties ‘misrecognized’ as belonging to the person when they are in fact the product of relations in which the person is enmeshed. A reconstruction of the concept in the sociologist’s work, along with analyses of its implications for a philosophy of perception and for ideology, will show the way for an unexpected approach both to Bourdieu’s own work, reframed through the concept of symbolic capital, and to personhood, which is revealed to be a profoundly and paradoxically relational notion.

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