Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Translator's Note xxv
5. PROLOGUE Social Structures and Mental Structures 1
6. PART I Academic Forms of Classification
7. 1 Dualistic Thinking and the Conciliation of Opposites 9
8. 2 Misrecognition and Symbolic Violence 30
9. Appendices
10. Appendix 1 The Social Origins of Concours General Prizewinners (1966-1986) 54
11. Appendix 2 Election and Overselection 57
12. Appendix 3 Prominent Themes from Two Prizewinning Essays 60
13. Appendix 4 A Sketch of Four Prizewinners 63
14. PART II The Ordination
15. 1 The Production of aN obility 73
16. 2 A Rite of Institution 102
17. 3 The Ambiguities of Competence 116
18. Appendix Accounts of Life in Preparatory Classes and Grandes Ecoles 124
19. PART III The Field of the Grandes Écoles and its Transformations
20. 1 A State of the Structure 131
21. 2 A Structural History 188
22. Appendices
23. Appendix 1 A Discourse of Celebration 230
24. Appendix 2 On Method 232
25. Appendix 3 Data Tables 245
26. Appendix 4 Blindness 255
27. PART IV The Field of Power and its Transformations
28. 1 Forms of Power and their Reproduction 263
29. 2 Establishment Schools and Power over the Economy 300
30. 3 Transformations in the Structure of the Field of Power 336
31. Appendices
32. Appendix 1 The Field of Economic Power in 1972 (Correspondence Analysis) 340
33. Appendix 2 Positions in the Field and Political Stances 350
34. Appendix 3 A Day in the Life of a VIP 356
35. Appendix 4 Elective Affinities, Institutionalized Connections, and the Circulation of Information 360
36. PART V State Power and Power over the State
37. STATE MAGIC 374
38. THE "BEROBED" AND THE INVENTION OF THE STATE 377
39. THE LENGTHENING OF THE CIRCUITS OF LEGITIMATION 382
40. Translator's Appendix 390
41. Notes 394
42. Index 458