Konferans - A folk devil in the metropolis: inventing the ‘underclass’

In English

Place: santalistanbul, Energy Museum Control Room  

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Istanbul Bilgi University is proudly hosting Loic Wacquant in collaboration with Galatasaray University and IFEA for an illuminating conference that will be accompanied by a book signing event for his recently published books by Istanbul Bilgi University Publishing. 

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of fields of cultural production and Reinhart Koselleck’s conceptual history, I recount the tale of the academic, journalistic and policy myth of the “underclass” in the American metropolis. I use this case study to suggest rules for the construction and evaluation of concepts in social science.

Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and associate researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique de la Sorbonne (CESSP-Paris).