Investigation of the influence of social structure on ideology in the works of Pierre Bourdieu

Abstract

The article discusses the main results of Pierre Bourdieu's research work on the reflection of social structure in ideology. The author described in detail such aspects of the topic as the mechanism of reproduction of the social structure through the social interaction of the main one on the habitus and the capital available to the subjects, which they seek to monopolize. It was noted that, according to Burde, the ideological field reproduces the social structure in an unrecognizable form. Attention is also paid to the issues of attitude to history, reflection in the worldview of the real and ideal, the social foundations of leadership, the indispensable conditions of which is compliance with the behavior of the leader to the habitus of the group. The main conclusions of the study are the following. According to Bourdieu, the ideological field reproduces the social structure in an unrecognizable form. The mechanism of assimilation is twofold: firstly, by occupying a certain position in the social hierarchy of classes, the agent will reproduce it in the ideological field; secondly, the struggle in the ideological field reproduces in euphemized forms the economic and political struggle between classes. Among other things, the ideology reflects not only the attitudes of the ruling elite, but also professional creators who seek to take advantage of the delegation of authority to define the social world. Bourdieu's work devoted to the representation of the past (history) is also analyzed as a reflection of the present and an instrument of ideological struggle.