State, school and symbolic violence: constructions from Pierre Bourdieu

Abstract

The text tries to establish, from the theoretical bets of Pierre Bourdieu, possible relations between State and School from the notions of bureaucratic field and school field, crossed by the exercise of symbolic violence that in each field its capitals make possible. For this purpose, the text succinctly recovers the way in which the author configures the notion of the State and from this, key ideas in his theory such as capital, power and symbolic violence. The notion of the State implies understanding Bourdieu’s reconstruction of its genesis in which it is vital to speak of the bureaucratic State, whose consolidation has a strong relationship with the school, school titles, and the symbolic goods market around which it configures the school field. The configuration of this field implies a legitimation derived from the state capitals with which the school also has the power to exercise symbolic violence that results in the reproduction of social structures, an aspect that marks the conclusions of this text. In the conclusions, in addition and without the intention of going into depth, but in response to the motivations of this text, an initial analysis is synthesized that is derived from the theoretical approach and the epistemological and methodological clarities of an ongoing investigation from the Bourdiana commitment.