How Does Bourdieu View Society As Organized On The Basis Of Social Reproduction?

Jurgen Habermas and Pierre Bourdieu view society as organized on the basis of social reproduction through their theory of lifeworld and system and social space rather than the economic or material reproduction that has been put to blame for shaping social life. Habermas conceptualized Lifeworld as our day-to-day life where we interact and share our ideas with others to build identities, negotiate situational understandings, and create social solidarity. All of this takes place in a public sphere, which is a necessity where debates take place and ideas are shared in order to understand our connected word. After Jurgen Habermas, French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, developed a critical approach through social space that takes into consideration how individual’s attitudes and behaviors are formed as well as their subjectivity in the world. Both Jurgen Habermas and Pierre Bourdieu tried to understand the modern capitalistic society and the differences of social class and social reproduction through their concepts of

The rationality embedded within communicative action distributes a basis for renewing the social system to the operating demands of proof. In modern society, communicative action is most active in the public sphere where active social movements take place towards broad social issues. Public Sphere is a social space for communicating information and opinions freely in a noncoercive manner. Habermas’s public sphere theory helps us understand that through debates communicative alienation forms due to dominated social sources such as power and money interfering with the process of emergence of