Publication: “Ignorancia blanca” y sociología reflexiva: un diálogo entre Charles W. Mills y Pierre Bourdieu
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2025
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Arroyo García, Nantu
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Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones
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https://doi.org/10.6018/sh.636241
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En este artículo partiremos de los análisis de las formas del poder elaborados por Pierre Bourdieu en La dominación masculina (1998) y por Charles W. Mills en El Contrato Racial (1997), para investigar la capacidad de los conceptos bourdianos (habitus, capital simbólico, violencia simbólica) de intersectarse con los análisis de las relaciones raciales y laconstrucción de privilegios en el ámbito de las relaciones de dominación. Asimismo, estableceremos una serie de similitudes entre la sociología reflexiva desarrollada por Bourdieu (2005)y el proyecto de una epistemología social elaborado por Mills(1997), que permitan conectar el trabajo de ambos autores con las “epistemologías de la ignorancia”. De esta forma, se busca comprender cómo opera la blanquitud (whiteness), entendida como capital simbólico y forma de poder social, y cómo se perpetúa bajo la forma del privilegio social de la Blanquitud(Whiteness), a través de mecanismos institucionalizados de ignorancia, practicados cotidianamente en el mundo social.
In this article, we will start from the analysis of forms of power developed by Pierre Bourdieu in La domination masculine (1998) and Charles W. Mills in The Racial Contract (1997), to investigate the capacity of Bourdieu’s concepts (habitus, symbolic capital, symbolic violence)to intersect withanalyses of race relations and the construction of privileges within the realmof relations of domination. We will also establish a series of similarities between reflexive sociologydeveloped by Bourdieu (2005) and the project of a social epistemology elaborated by Mills(1997), which allow us to connect the “epistemologies of ignorance” with the work of both authors. In doing so, we seek to understand how whitenessoperates, undersood as symbolic capital and a form of social power, and how it is perpetuated in the form of social privilege of Whiteness, through institucionalized mechanisms of ignorance, practiced daily in the social world.
In this article, we will start from the analysis of forms of power developed by Pierre Bourdieu in La domination masculine (1998) and Charles W. Mills in The Racial Contract (1997), to investigate the capacity of Bourdieu’s concepts (habitus, symbolic capital, symbolic violence)to intersect withanalyses of race relations and the construction of privileges within the realmof relations of domination. We will also establish a series of similarities between reflexive sociologydeveloped by Bourdieu (2005) and the project of a social epistemology elaborated by Mills(1997), which allow us to connect the “epistemologies of ignorance” with the work of both authors. In doing so, we seek to understand how whitenessoperates, undersood as symbolic capital and a form of social power, and how it is perpetuated in the form of social privilege of Whiteness, through institucionalized mechanisms of ignorance, practiced daily in the social world.
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Sociología histórica, 2025, Vol. 15, nº, 1, p. 223-248
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