On DVD with English subtitles at last: Sociology is a Fighting Sport (or sometimes Sociology is a Martial Art and in French La sociologie est un sport de combat) by journalist and documentarist Pierre Carles, who’s collected day after day a growing number of enemies by highlighting connivances between politcs and the media. By producing his films on his own, Pierre Carles has nevertheless managed to preserve a total liberty of creation and to continue to present -in a hilarious and dramatic way- his vision of a society prevailed by dominating models through arthouse theaters and alternative networkds.
For Sociology is a Fighting Sport, Carles has followed French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who died in January 2002, with his camera for years. Bourdieu was a very influential and controversial intellectual, whose ambiguous relationship -a mixture of rejection, inhibition and clever use- to the public and to television is widely known. In this context the films of Pierre Carles are a multiple exception: Carles did not work in commission of a television transmitter, but had, on the contrary, the full trust of the sociologist. strong>Sociology is a Fighting Sport is a thorough and sensitive portrait of the working connections and correlations of the actions of Bourdieu. The film shows Bourdieu at work, the kind of work which for him played a central role: on the interface to concrete action.

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