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The Endless Fields of Pierre Bourdieu

Departments of Religious Studies and Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Friedland{at}religion.ucsb.edu

Laying out the logic of Bourdieu’s approach to institutional fields, this essay argues that Bourdieu’s theorization of the logic of practice is a generic contest for domination in a plurality of homologously organized fields. Bourdieu aligns all practices through the logic of domination, which allows him to homologize group relations in every field. This homologization depends on a homogenization of fields, the sociological effacement of their cultural specificity. The essay then contrasts Bourdieu’s model of the practical logic of fields to Friedland’s understanding of the institutional logic of practice.

Key Words: Pierre Bourdieu • institutional logic • substance

Organization, Vol. 16, No. 6, 887-917 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1350508409341115


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