BAHASA & KEKUASAAN: PERAN BAHASA SEBAGAI INSTRUMEN SIMBOLIK MEMPEROLEH KEKUASAAN (LANGUAGE & POWER: THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE AS A SYMBOLIC INSTRUMENT TO POWER)
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Abstract
Banyak ilmuan memosisikan atau cenderung kepada salah satu dari dua posisi yang bertentangan dalam diskursus epistemologi, seperti idealisme-materialisme, rasionalisme-empirisme, subjektivisme-objektivisme, mikro-makro, agensi-struktur, kebebasan-determinisme. Bourdieu -ilmuan sosial Prancis- keluar dari perdebatan tersebut dan mengadirkan konsep habitus yang meleburkan agensi dan struktur. Habitus mencakut bahasa, yang berperan sebagai sistem simbolik dan kapital. Ia bukan hanya bagian dalam transmisi pesan saja tetapi juga sebagai instrumen/mekanisme simbolik untuk memperoleh kekuasaan dan mempertahankan dominasi. Artikel ini akan membahas bagaimana bahasa digunakan sebagai instrumen simbolik untuk memperoleh kekuasaan. Artikel ini juga mendiskusikan bahasa sebagai kapital dan habitus, selain sebagai mekanisme kekuasaan, yaitu sistem instumental simbolik yang mencakup struktur-yang-menstruktur, struktur-yang-distruktur, instrumen dominasi. Mekanisme ini menghasilkan dua sintesa tentang sistem simbolik: “structuring symbols” dan “structured symbols”. Kami menyimpulkan bahwa walaupun tidak menekankan aspek ekonomi, kapital Bourdieu mempunyai peran penting dalam pertarungan kelas dan perbedaan kelas. Kapital ekonomi memegang perang penting karena dapat dikonversi ke kapital lainnya. Perkembangan teknologi internet memberikan implikasi bahwa kapital ekonomi tidak selalu dominan. Kapital sosial justru menjadi kapital yang dominan dan dapat dipertukarkan dengan kapital lainnya.
Many scientists position and tend to one of two opposing positions in epistemology: idealism-materialism, rationalism-empiricism, subjectivism-objectivism, micro-macro, agency-structure, freedom-determinism. Bourdieu escaped out of the debate by introducing habitus which agency and structure merge with. It encompasses languages, which are important as a symbolic system and capital. Languages don’t only transmit message but also make-up symbolic instrument to power and keep dominating. We deals with the usage of language as an instrument to power, and discusses about languages as capital and habitus besides as power mechanism, namely symbolic instrument system i.e., structuring-structures, structured-structures, domination instrument. This mechanism results in two syntheses regarding symbolic system: structuring symbols and structured symbols. We conclude, Bourdieu’s concept of capitals have key role in class differentiation and class strugle although don’t emphasize economic capital. Economic one is important because of its conversability into other capitals. New technology (internet) gives an implication that economic capital is not always dominant anymore. Social capital can be dominant and important one because it can be changed into other capital.
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