Conference Paper

From "Neoliberal Aesthetic" to "Habitus", Bourdieu and Popular Culture

Number: 10 June 1, 2009
  • Doç. Dr. Hüseyin Köse
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From "Neoliberal Aesthetic" to "Habitus", Bourdieu and Popular Culture

Abstract

Pierre Bourdieu analyzes popular culture phenomenon within the scope of social criticism of appreciation attitude. He focuses on the ideological dimension of the cultural field, which classifies and discriminates individuals' life styles and practices. Accordingly, popular pleasure -in its simplest terms- is not integrative but discriminative. It binds individuals to the dominant cultural system by imposing some tendencies, habits and permanent predispositions on them. Bourdieu underlines an ideological influence process where popular culture creates social classes on the basis of cultural practices. According to Bourdieu, habitus which means "a concretized socialization" is the potential ideological channel of the dominant culture. Generally describing the "field" as a "transformation" area where power relationships and social struggles take place as well as semantic relationships, Bourdieu does not isolate the field of culture from this discriminative basis where class-based power conflicts are experienced. This study focuses on a theoretical criticism of popular culture, as understood by Bourdieu, in the scope of its relationship with "neoliberal aesthetic" and "habitus" concepts.

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Turkish

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Doç. Dr. Hüseyin Köse

Publication Date

June 1, 2009

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February 4, 2014

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Year 1970 Number: 10

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Köse, D. D. H. (2009). “Neoliberal Estetik”ten “Habitus”a Bourdieu ve Popüler Kültür. Galatasaray Üniversitesi İletişim Dergisi, 10, 71-92. https://izlik.org/JA32WA45AG

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