The Influence On The New Cultural History By Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most influential ideologists and social theorists in contemporary world. Despite his ideology began to catch the international academia's attention gradually until the 1980s, and to the 1990s it has formed the research upsurge even further exacerbate the trend. Prior to this fact, some of his doctrine and his research in education, culture, arts and social issues which refers to a wide range and has an unique style, has produced a considerable impact in many specific areas. The impact of Bourdieu's theory resources on the study of the New Cultural History, which has become the main trend after the Annales school of historiography in modern Western, is also great. Although some of his theories and concepts mainly for his sociological research, the formation of the theory itself also absorbs the wisdom of other academic disciplines and schools. Overall, I believe that the influence of Bourdieu's theory on the New Cultural History is mainly reflected in the theoretical concepts, even though he is as a sociologist, and the sociological practice of his theory has not been really responsed and directly succeeded in historians, his early research practice in the field of anthropology, the new interpretation on the concept of culture and the method of cultural analysis, his practice and reflexive theory, and so on all provide the new cultural historians a unique theoretical perspective for researching into history and also guide them towards a way which the New Cultural History forwards on.This paper first try to organize and analysis his academic contributions, theoretical framework and main conceptual tools in the research of social and cultural field through Bourdieu's limited resources which I can collect for the moment. And then according to the peak of the development process and the end of the adjustment to reflect, the movement of the New Cultural History in modern Western can be divided into the "cultural turn" of history and "once again" of the "cultural turn" these two stages. Finally from the two-stage and through expatiating the theory and research practice of the New Cultural History, I try to specifically explore the relationship between Bourdieu and the New Cultural History, especially the wide-ranging influence of his ideas and resources on the New Cultural History.