Revisiting 'Nights Of Labour': Talk by Jacques Ranciere- Part 3

[kingofaikido]

the last comments here regarding the horizon of the possible being tied to one's occupation was also an idea Mannheim promoted as the sociology of self-knowledge. People defined themselves by what they did or by what social circles they mingled within. There knowledge was thus encased within local concerns forming a limit to their perceptions of themselves. I guess, Bourdieu also carried on a variation of this thesis with his idea of 'social capital'.