%0 Journal Article
%T From Le savant et le politique (Weber, int. Aron, 1959) to Le savant et le populaire (Grignon & Passeron, 1989) from an English perspective
%A Derek Robbins
%J Theoria and Praxis : International Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought
%D 2013
%I York University
%X Aron published as Le savant et le politique (1959) [the scientist and the politician] a long introduction to the first French translations of Weber¡¯s two lectures of 1918 ¨C Wissenschaft als Beruf [Science as vocation] and Politik als Beruf [Politics as vocation]. This article comments on Aron¡¯s introduction. It then looks at the divergent responses to Aron¡¯s work of Jean-Claude Passeron and Pierre Bourdieu, both of whom were ¡®mentored¡¯ by Aron. Bourdieu and Passeron developed a sociology of education and culture in the 1960s. Passeron retained the Weberian distinction whereas Bourdieu saw social research as an instrument for political action. I comment on the political implications of the comparable development of Cultural Studies in England in the 1960s and 70s, and I come back to France to consider Passeron¡¯s introduction to the translation of Hoggart¡¯s The Uses of Literacy (1959) as La culture du pauvre (1970). I focus next on the situation in 1979 at the year of the publication of Bourdieu¡¯s La distinction and Lyotard¡¯s La condition postmoderne, before discussing Le savant et le populaire [the scientist and the ordinary person] (Grignon & Passeron, 1989) and trying to draw out some conclusions which relate sociology to popular culture and populist politics.
%K The Political
%K Weber
%K Aron
%K Bourdieu
%K Passeron
%K Hoggart
%U http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/theoriandpraxis/article/viewFile/36824/33464