Régimes d’action et rapports de pouvoir. Vers un approfondissement de la théorie bourdieusienne de la domination ?

In Bourdieu’s thought, the social and symbolic relationships between groups are conceived of as relationships of domination of an agonistic type. Such a representation of power fails to account for the diversity of power and domination relations and the felt need to distinguish between them. In making constructive “rapprochements” between Bourdieu’s theory of domination and other concepts produced by other authors (especially Boltanski, Thévenot, Reynaud, Hirschman, Kershaw,…), and in integrating these various contributions around the widened concept of “modes of action”, which articulates social and symbolic relationships, our goal is to contribute to the construction of a multidimensional theory of power and domination which allows us to distinguish between them and through them articulate the various types of exercise of power and domination. These different regimes of action correspond to different states of social and symbolic relations in various fields