Returning Class? Class Position and Reproduction of Entrepreneurs in the Light of Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory Cover Image

Powracająca klasa? Pozycja klasowa a reprodukcja klasy przedsiębiorców w kontekście teorii Pierre’a Bourdieu
Returning Class? Class Position and Reproduction of Entrepreneurs in the Light of Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory

Author(s): Łukasz Trembaczowski
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Social development, Social differentiation, Social Theory
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: entrepreneurs’ class position; Pierre Bourdieu; succession in family business

Summary/Abstract: In the paper entrepreneurs’ class position is being discussed with reference to neo--Marxist and neo-Weberian conceptualizations. Conclusion of those considerationsis recall of Stanisław Ossowski’s differentiation of relational and gradational classes.What is proposed here is elucidation of distinction between those two as reduced toassociational or enumerative character of concepts describing class differentiation. Inthe light of such distinctions Bourdieu’s class theory can be seen as of relational andgradational character simultaneously.Determination of enrtreperneur’ class position in light of Bourdieu’s theory isdone through reconstruction of modal trajectories what allows to describe genesisof this “new” class, while brief description of the field of economical productionand its reformulations completes the picture. Finally, the problem of succession infamily enterprises is discussed in light of reproduction process. This succession is anongoing process now and de facto, most current refiguration of the field of economicproduction.

  • Issue Year: 5/2016
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 79-100
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish