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Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social thinkers of the past half-century, known for both his theoretical and methodological contributions and his wide-ranging empirical investigations into colonial power in Algeria, the educational system in France, the forms of state power and the history of artistic and scientific fields - among many other topics. Despite the depth and breadth of his influence, however, Bourdieu's legacy has yet to be assessed in a comprehensive manner.

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.

Der Verfasser untersucht das deutsche Bildungssystem im Licht der Machttheorie Pierre Bourdieus. Hierzu werden die zentralen Bezugsgrößen in Bourdieus Ansatz - soziales Feld, Habitus, Kapitalformen - auf die Fragestellung bezogen, in wie fern Chancengleichheit im Bildungssystem gegeben ist. Der Verfasser zeigt, dass sich hinter der formalen Chancengleichheit im deutschen Bildungssystem ein System verbirgt, das die Ungleichheit als prädeterminiert konstatiert und reproduziert. Dies wird auf regionaler Ebene für die Faktoren soziale Herkunft, Kapitalausstattung der Eltern und Gender gezeigt. Die soziale Herkunft eines Individuums, so wird deutlich, hat einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf den Bildungserfolg. (ICE2).

This study of the work of the influential French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu places his work firmly in the context of developments both in the French post-war intellectual field an din post-war French society as a whole. Set against the background of rapid change and upheaval that has characterised post-war French society, culture and politics, Bourdieu's work can be seen as offering a peculiarly perceptive analysis of France's problematic transition to an era of late capitalism. Proceeding thematically, this study traces the development of Bourdieu's thought, elucidating the relationship between the anthropological and sociological aspects of his work, examining his debt to Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Bachelard, and highlighting his antagonistic relationship with a series of contemporary intellectual figures and movements - Barthes, Lefebvre, Touraine, Sartre, Fanon, Foucault, Derrida, structuralism and post-structuralism