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Applied Sociology: Poltical and Technological Change in Indonesia |
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20th May 2008, 6.30pm - 8.00pm Convenor: Hassan Hoque Reading: Sulfikar AMIR, 'Symbolic Power in a Technocratic Regime: The Reign of B.J. Habibie in New Order Indonesia', Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia Vol. 22, No. 1 (2007), pp. 83-106. This week's CRG session will look into Pierre Bourdieu's sociology: A case study of political and technological change in Indonesia. This session will be of particular interest to those interested in understanding social and political change, in terms of theory and practice. It focussed on the work of Pierre Bourdieu an acclaimed socially concious French sociologist. His ideas on the cultural field, symbolic power and practical logic are important and versatile tools with which to understand social transformation and replication.
The reading on symbolic power takes the theory and applies it to a practical analysis of Indonesian society.
Hassan Hoque received an MA in Social Anthropology from SOAS in 2004.
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