Pierre Bourdieu's commitment to a reflexive sociology led him ineluctably to take on the final challenge of a self socio-analysis in which he recounts and analyses, his understanding of the trajectory that led him from the peasant world of Barn, to...
Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential critical social theorists of the second half of the twentieth century, once described sociology as 'a combat sport.' This collection of his writings on politics and social science from the Algerian War...
Kunst oder Geld? Das Werk als Text . Der Sinn der Geschichte. Die staatliche. Konstruktion des Geistes. Interessenfreiheit als Leidenschaft. Das Lachen. der Bischöfe. Die Theorie der theoretischen Sicht.
Vom Rheintal ins Engadin: Das obere Rheintal zwischen Bad Ragaz und Chur. Im Hotel ¿Weisskreuz¿ zaubert der Patron ¿Bündnerfleisch-Torte¿. ¿Urchig¿ wird`s in Lenzerheide, wo es im ¿Guarda Val¿...
The late Pierre Bourdieu's study challenges the assumptions of orthodox economic theory by showing how the market is effectively constructed by the state. He contends that supply, demand, the market and even the buyer are products of a process of social...
Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions correspondi...
Adressing a range of issues and debates in the natural and social sciences, this work provides a sociological analysis of science which enables readers to understand the social mechanisms which shape scientific practice.
Adressing a range of issues and debates in the natural and social sciences, this work provides a sociological analysis of science which enables readers to understand the social mechanisms which shape scientific practice.
Masculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. It is so much in line with our expectations that we struggle to call it fully into question. Pierre Bourdieu's ethnographic analysis of gender...
Speaking out against the myths of the 1990s, especially those associated with neo-liberalism, this text offers a defence of the public interest. Standing up for the interests of the powerless, this text aims to be a plea for a new internationalism.
By examining the social conditions of museum practices, this book shows that cultivated taste is not a natural gift but a socially inculcated disposition which is distributed unevenly, and which predisposes some to distinguish themselves through their...
This wide-ranging analysis of the practice of photography brings out the logic implicit in this cultural field. The norms which define the occasions and the objects of photography serve to display the socially differentiated functions of, and attitudes...
Over the last three decades, Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the his influence, no single introduction to his wide?ranging work is available. This...