Reflexividade e constituição do mundo social: Giddens e Bourdieu (breves interpretações)

• Main Authors: Flávio Ramos, Sérgio S. Januário
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) 2007-01-01
• Series: Ciências Sociais Unisinos
• Subjects: reflectivity; social world; social agent
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=93843308

This paper refers to a theoretical debate between Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu. The central issue has to do with reflectivity as a phenomenon that constitutes the social world as a dialogic potential of transformation and maintenance of social life. In a more specific way, it discusses the following question: Are social agents relatively free to introduce themselves to the social world by changing it creatively or are they reflexes of fixed and structuring structures (i.e., structures in a transformation process)? Obviously the article will not answer these questions completely, as they are too complex and have been intensively discussed for a long time by thinkers who have devoted their academic lives to this topic.