ENVIRONMENT AS A SYMBOLIC CAPITAL DISPUTED BY SPECIFIC FIELDS CORRESPONDING TO THE STATE: REFLECTIONS FROM THE BOURDIEUSIAN SOCIOLOGY

Abstract

We developed this theoretical essay with the aim of disserting, based on reflections from the Bourdieusian sociology, about the environment as a symbolic capital disputed by some fields corresponding to the State. We considered the environment as a symbolic capital for the following reasons: its existence; its rarely noticeable manifestations; its influence with social agents; arising a desire for monopoly; establishing competition criteria; having its concentrated distribution, and being able to be paradoxical in the choice of its representatives. The fields compete for this symbolic capital because: the field of power wants to ensure that the domination scheme continues; the economic field seeks to maintain the source of raw material for the markets; the juridical field intends to impose a notion of this symbolic capital that the State supports; and, the political field intends to camouflage it in discourses and acts which distort the subject and encourage widespread abstention.