P.Bourdieu's ideas on reflexivity of state and symbolic violence

The purpose of this study is to carry out a review on Pierre Bourdieu's reflexivity and on the state and symbolic violence explained under this reflexivity. Bourdieu, who has used the concept of symbolic violence in order to explain non-physical violence, expresses that the mentality, which has delivered the monopoly on physical violence to the state, should also take into consideration of symbolic violence. Bourdieu, who has added a new dimension to the state doctrine under this point of view, also places symbolic violence into the source of social inequality. With regard to the general public law discipline which places the concepts such as state, human rights, justice, equality and freedom into the center of its researches, it is of importance to examine the inequality created by symbolic violence. In the study where a review is carried out on the impacts of symbolic violence and the instruments and means used in inflicting symbolic violence; symbolic order is introduced. Keywords: Pierre Bourdieu, Violence, State, Symbolic Violence, Symbolic Order