Field·Habitus·Capital·Reflexivity

This paper, according to three main sociology concept---field, habitus, capital, which arebelonged to French sociology Pierre Bourdieu, to make a new understanding of our country'smedia: the public's media is a field that combines other social realms;Media own a series ofhabitus system, which are solid, proper behavior and judgment method under the history andrealistic function;Have the economic capital, social capital and the cultural capital, they aredecision factor of the media position in the social power field .These understanding give us new method to comprehend mass media: The effect reasonof the mass media lies in a field effect, media control symbolic violence to decide what kindof the formation of the field effect, habitus of media is a kind of factor for systemize, on onehand rising to firm the development of the medium, on the other hand is obstacle to theprogress of the medium reform;The media capital comes to a decision of power contrastbetween the areas of media and politics, economy, cultures, public living, but the media alterto be subjected to the control of the capital power inside other areas, the performance is theexcessiveness close contact of media and political, commercial area, which led to theindependence descendant of mass media.In addition to this three main concepts, reflexivity is another characteristics of Bourdieu's theory. Under the leading of this methodology, this paper also tries to use reflexivity to thinkabout actuality and future of mass media in social transformation.