Are brought to bear on

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Does "are brought to bear on" in the text below somehow imply "get connected to"?

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While this perspective has been particularly dominant in American scholarship, Bourdieu can be said to offer a European variant, where the masters of the grand sociological narrative, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, are brought to bear on the production of value and the consumption of artifacts as forms of social distinction.

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cattttthe masters of the grand sociological narrative ... are brought to bear on the production of value and the consumption of artifacts as forms of social distinction.

I take it as

the [ideas of the] masters of the grand sociological narrative ... are ["called in" (i.e., used) to help explain] the production of value and the consumption of artifacts as forms of social distinction.

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