Scientific Habitus

Pierre Bourdieu and the Collective Intellectual

Bibliographic Data

ID2351970
AuthorsRémi Lenoir (Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume23
Issue6
Pages25-43
Publication date2006-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0263276406069774
OpenAlexW2098231279
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited6

According to Bourdieu, the 'collective intellectual' resembles the sports team in terms of the spirit which drives it (in this case the 'scientific spirit', in the sense that Bachelard used the term), the collectivist attitudes implied by its activity, and the form of apprenticeship involved - constant, intensive and regular training. The combination of these elements gives rise to gestures and syntheses which are constantly, incessantly repeated to the point where they become a habitus (what Bourdieu called the scientific habitus); it also creates the mutually supportive force, mobilized in its practical, articulate and coherent mode, which Bourdieu believed a research centre - a specific form taken by the collective intellectual in the scientific sphere - should constitute. His prime concern, a principle evident from the start both in his experience of teaching and in the first research projects he led in Algeria, was in fact to establish and institutionalize a collective sociological practice based on a habitus shared by all those involved in the activities he instigated

Apprenticeship · Collectivism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Habitus · Individualism · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Historical and Literary Studies · Law · Philosophy · Social Sciences and Humanities

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