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Sociology Literature of Bourdieu

Bourdieu has provided many facilities in studying literature, which previously were not
sufficiently provided by the social theory of literature. Previous studies of social literature
focused on the alternating dynamics between text and society, between objective and subjective,
between intrinsic and extrinsic, between internal and external. However, the dynamics are placed
separately and in a textual relationship.

Bourdieu was trying to get out of that situation. He is among those who oppose the separation
between theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge.

Bourdieu's main concern is that his intellectual project is more oriented towards dismantling the
dynamics of cultural domination and the various possibilities related to the occurrence of
legitimacy hierarchies (symbolic violence) in various arenas of life. The situation, according to
Aprinus as a whole, affects the agents in their strategy and practice of life.

In Bourdieu's perspective, the strengths of the writer Emha Ainun Nadjib, for example, are that
he is capable and skilled at breaking through and playing with doksa. In Indonesian society in
general, the ability to break through and toy with doxa, under authoritarian political pressure, is a
rare strategy and skill.

What stands out from the study (sociology) of literature in Bourdieu's perspective is that it opens
up opportunities to ask what, how, and why someone has legitimacy and is 'successful' as a
writer or artist. As is well known Pierre Bourdieu is a French sociologist and writer known for
his outspoken political views and involvement in public issues. Bourdieu was one of the leading
players in French intellectual life. He became an “intellectual reference” for the movement
against neo-liberalism and globalization, which developed in France and other parts of the world
during the 1990s.

Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminology such as cultural capital, social
capital, and symbolic capital, as well as the concepts of habitus, field or location, and symbolic
violence to reveal the dynamics of power relations in social life.