Carnal concepts in action

The diagonal sociology of Loïc Wacquant

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ID4481485
AuthorsLoïc Wacquant (University of California, Berkeley), D Vandebroeck (0000-0001-7875-7116, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium)
Year2024
Volume180
Issue1
Pages111-143
Publication date2024-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/07255136221149782
OpenAlexW4377823617
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited48

Written in the form of a dialogue with Brussels sociologist Dieter Vandebroeck, this article retraces the social and intellectual trajectory of Loïc Wacquant as stepping stone to reviewing and discussing the major concepts coined and theoretical propositions elaborated in the course of his research on comparative urban marginality, racial domination, the ghetto, the penal state, neoliberalism, and carnality. This provides an opportunity to specify the relationships between ethnography, history and theory; the dialectic of domination and resistance; the role of public (dis)honor in social life; the uses of Bourdieu's bureaucratic field; and the social and academic conditions of incubation, diffusion, and death of scholarly myths such as the "underclass." The article closes on a call to clearly distinguish the rhetorical, metaphorical, and analytical usages of concepts and reaffirms the need for epistemic reflexivity as sine qua non for the articulation of robust scientific problematics

Dialectic · Epistemology · Honor · Reflexivity · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Social science · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Philosophy

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