10.17192/meta.2014.2.1312 Barlösius, Eva Eva Barlösius Pierre Bourdieu: Transformation Societies and the Middle Class Middle East - Topics + Arguments : Vol 2 (2014) Philipps-Universität Marburg 2014 Bourdieu Trajectory Algerian Society Habitus Middle Class Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) 2018-01-31 2014-05-16 en JournalArticle https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2014/37/1312 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2014-37-13128 https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2014.2.37 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2014/37/1312/1312.png 2196-629X application/pdf This article reconstructs Pierre Bourdieu's œuvre from his interest in transformation societies. The focus is on fundamental change in the objective structure of societies, a common characteristic of all three he treated in depth—Algerian in the 1950s and French in the 1960s and late 1900s. Bourdieu asked what uncertainties and miseries people feel when their habitus is overtaken by rapid change in objective structure. He concluded that their experience often results in a hysteresis effect and a split habitus and that members of the middle class in particular, because of their uncertain position in the social structure, suffer from both phenomena. 2196-629X Middle East - Topics + Arguments Vol 2 (2014)