Abstract

LOPES, João Teixeira. Reflections on symbolic violence and the cultural arbitrary: the new etiquette guides in the cultural field. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2005, n.49, pp.43-51. ISSN 0873-6529.

The article reflects on the work of symbolic violence contained in the new "guides to etiquette" for cultural audiences/"publics", as codes of conduct that more or less covertly impose positions that are presented as socially legitimate and hegemonic. This is in spite of the fact that they represent a contingent and historic product of particular and institutionally localized symbolic universes that define the change from lay status to that of a member of a particular public. Notes on the suffering and happiness of the "new publics".

Keywords : Guides to conduct; cultural policies; audiences; habitus; symbolic violence.

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