Abstract

RODRIGUES GUIMARAES, Ana Cristina. Would be Bourdieu utilitarian?. Trab. soc. [online]. 2013, n.20, pp.45-56. ISSN 1514-6871.

This article intends to revisit the critic made by Caillé on the 1980's, to Bourdieu's Theory of Practice, which is still reaffirmed nowadays. From questioning if Bourdieu's theory is utilitarian or not, it is intended to set a dialogue between Alain Caillé and Pierre Bourdieu, having as basis some of their writings. Caillé considers Bourdieu a thinker who doesn't break off with the utilitarian theory. On the other side, he comes up with a perspective that intends to be antiutilitarian, having as basis the thought of Marcel Mauss and the category of "gift". The rereading of Bourdieu's writings in which he is seeking counter-arguments to Caillé's statement, permits to point out some Theory of Practice's aspects that are still under-explored and, in this way, to contribute to the comprehension of the subject. Beyond that, it enables the reflection about the complexity of the encounter of two fields of knowledge: on one side it is Bourdieu, as an exponent of Sociology, and, on the other side it is Caillé, as an exponent of Economy. At last, it makes also possible to think indirectly the closeness and distance between two Social Sciences' references: Bourdieu and Mauss.

Keywords : Pierre Bourdieu; Alain Caillé; Theory of Practice; Utilitarianism.

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