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The Sociologist's Eye

The Sociologist's Eye Daniel Buren. Photo-souvenir: “D’un Arc l’autre.” Detail. Paris, 1999. Work in situ in “Champs de la Sculpture 2000.” © Daniel Buren. The Sociologist’s Eye INÈS CHAMPEY Translated by Rosalind Krauss and Denis Hollier “Doubtlessly, we will never see a ‘political philosopher’ setting, with the very natural seriousness of a Heidegger asking ‘What Is Called Thinking?’ the question ‘What Is Called Voting?’” 1 This way of raising the issue of the vote and of “representation” (in all senses of the word) shows the specialness and the stake of what Pierre Bourdieu has called a “political sociology of knowledge.”2 This sociology, also called “critical sociology” or “sociology of the forms of symbolic domination,”3 is engaged with the givens of the doxa, and as a consequence, engages as well with the commonplaces proper to each mode of cultural production—scientific, philosophic, literary, artistic, etc.—all the way to those of the commonplaces of ordinary life. This form of sociology claims the status of science, because its method implies the practice of “socioanalysis,” i.e., the obligation that the sociologist objectify the “social conditions of possibility” of his own sociological work, and due to its “autonomy” in relation to political and economic forces and to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png October MIT Press

The Sociologist's Eye

Champey, Inès
October , Volume Summer 2002 (101) – Jul 1, 2002
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© 2002 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Daniel Buren. Photo-souvenir: “D’un Arc l’autre.” Detail. Paris, 1999. Work in situ in “Champs de la Sculpture 2000.” © Daniel Buren. The Sociologist’s Eye INÈS CHAMPEY Translated by Rosalind Krauss and Denis Hollier “Doubtlessly, we will never see a ‘political philosopher’ setting, with the very natural seriousness of a Heidegger asking ‘What Is Called Thinking?’ the question ‘What Is Called Voting?’” 1 This way of raising the issue of the vote and of “representation” (in all senses of the word) shows the specialness and the stake of what Pierre Bourdieu has called a “political sociology of knowledge.”2 This sociology, also called “critical sociology” or “sociology of the forms of symbolic domination,”3 is engaged with the givens of the doxa, and as a consequence, engages as well with the commonplaces proper to each mode of cultural production—scientific, philosophic, literary, artistic, etc.—all the way to those of the commonplaces of ordinary life. This form of sociology claims the status of science, because its method implies the practice of “socioanalysis,” i.e., the obligation that the sociologist objectify the “social conditions of possibility” of his own sociological work, and due to its “autonomy” in relation to political and economic forces and to

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