La sociologie est un sport de combat | Sociology is a martial art

I’m a student of third year of sociology, and in the past semester, in the subject of sociological theory IV we read to Pierre Bourdieu. Before reading this author, I watched a documentary about him; this helped me to understand his theory, his biography and allowed me to hear him self explain some central concepts as Habitus, Social Capital and Field.

Sociology is a Martial Art (La Sociologie est un sport de combat, in the original french) is a documentary about Pierre Bourdieu, a very important sociologist of the early part of the xx century. It is directed by Pierre Carles, a French director that followed to Bourdieu with a camera and filmed him in conferences, lectures, interviews and researching. Also it gives very important biographical data about the French sociologist.

I think this documentary can be useful to sociology because is a good first approach to the Bourdieu’s theory’s. Personally I think that when someone needs to understand any author, a good form to start is be clear about the life of this author, and this is a good form to learn this.

Thanks you for reading!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlWf6ejbBGw