SOCIAL REPRODUCTION OF PEASANT BETWEEN TRADITION AND CAPITAL: A BOURDIESIAN ANALYSIS

Abstract

This article is supported on the theory of social fields and in the main concepts that are part of a relational perspective of investigation proposed by Pierre Bourdieu to analyze the transformations of the peasantry. More specifically, the analysis turns to the reality observed by Bourdieu and Sayad in Algeria and how the advance of urban-industrial rationality imposed itself on the peasantry of that country, destroying traditional ways of being, living, and producing. This being one of the main studies that Bourdieu undertook to get start his theoretical framework and his conceptual innovations, attention is drawn at the end to the relevance of these reflections in order to understand the logic of social reproduction of peasant groups in contemporary times between tradition and capital.