Abstract

CAMPOS, Névio de. Epistemology: an overview of Pierre Bourdieu. Rev. Inter Ação [online]. 2016, vol.41, n.2, pp.399-417. ISSN 0101-7136.  https://doi.org/10.5216/ia.v41i2.36233.

This article discusses the problem of epistemology, analyzing the sociology of science by Pierre Bourdieu. It begins with a general discussion on epistemology and then approaches the point of view of this French thinker, adopting the hypothesis that his sociology of science criticizes scientific idealism and determinism and affirms an understanding that the scientific field is a social product, but with its specificities. It bases itself on the main writings of this sociologist which deal with the problem of science, especially in For a Sociology of Science and Social Uses of Science: for a clinical sociology in the scientific field, in the same way as in the theoretical input of Intellectual History, which explains the thinking of this social scientist, establishing links between the work and its creator, between the work and its epoch and among the different works of the same period.

Keywords : Epistemology; Sociology of Science; Pierre Bourdieu; Intellectual History.

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