«Социальное пространство» П. Бурдьё: история конструирования понятия

Социологический журнал. 2025. Т. 31. № 1. С. 110–123.

Shmatko N., Маркова Ю. В.

The article deals with the history and interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “social space”.
With the help of the concept, Bourdieu described a set of interrelated social phenomena that support
and reflect each other. He defined social space as a multidimensional distribution of agents (individual
or collective) over objective positions determined by the distribution of effective resources or capitals —
economic, cultural, social and symbolic. Capitals conceptualize the nature of social space by introducing
different dimensions into it. According to Bourdieu, social space is the result of a complex interplay of various
relations that give social positions their properties. Social positions within this space do not exist separately
from or prior to these relationships — they are constituted by them. The study of social space is a search for
invariants. Sociology according to Bourdieu is a social topology — the understanding of spatial relations
between social positions in different variations. Bourdieu’s social space not only structures sociological
knowledge, but also provides methods for obtaining it.

Keywords: социальное пространство, социальная структура, история социологии, габитус, history of sociology, quantitative methods, Гомология, habitus, social space, социальная позиция, количественные методы, capitals, капиталы, social position, social structure, homology

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