In this article, Pierre Bourdieu elaborates the notion of class that underlies his sociologyical investigations since Distinction. The theory of social class must transcend the opposition between objectivist theories which identify classes with discrete groups objectively inscribed in reality, and subjectivist theories which reduce the "social order" to a kind of collective classification obtained by aggregating the individual strategies whereby agents classify themselves and others.
Pierre Bourdieu; genetic structuralism; symbolic forms; class
