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Understanding Bourdieu » Read Now
by Jen Webb, Tony Schirato, Geoff Danaher. 216 pgs.

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`Bourdieu's work is formidable - the journey is tough. Follow this French foreign legion - take an apple, take a hanky - but take this book' - Peter Beilharz , La Trobe University `A good range of recent examples from popular culture are used to flesh out the material in accessible terms...
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`Bourdieu's work is formidable - the journey is tough. Follow this French foreign legion - take an apple, take a hanky - but take this book' - Peter Beilharz , La Trobe University `A good range of recent examples from popular culture are used to flesh out the material in accessible terms. These examples are deployed very well indeed - rather than being tacked-on illustrations of an idea, they are instead used at the heart of the explanation of the ideas' - David Gauntlett, Leeds University Now considered one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, Pierre Bourdieu has left his mark on most of the 'big' theoretical issues in the world of contemporary theory: gender, subjectivity, the body, culture, citizenship, and globalization. His terms are now commonplace: 'social capital', 'cultural capital', 'field', and 'habitus'. Bourdieu examines how people conduct their lives in relation to one another and to major social institutions. He argues that culture and education aren't simply minor influences, but as important as economics in determining differences between groups of people. Unlike the other grand systematisers Marx and Foucault, Bourdieu has tested these arguments in detailed fieldwork. His range is eclectic, his vision is vast, and his writing is often dense and challenging. Understanding Bourdieu offers a comprehensive introduction to Bourdieu's work. It is essential reading for anyone tackling him for the first time.
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The Work of Pierre Bourdieu: Recognizing Society » Read Now
by Derek Robbins. 220 pgs.

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...The Work of Pierre Bourdieu The Work of Pierre Bourdieu Recognizing society Derek Robbins WESTVIEW...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Robbins Derek The Work of Pierre...
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Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective ("Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste" by Pierre Bourdieu begins on p. 404) » Read Now
by David B. Grusky. 752 pgs.

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...Leisure Class 397 PIERRE BOURDIEU Distinction: A Social Critique...manners"; privileged life-style Pierre Bourdieu; Paul DiMaggio 4. Social...as a rigidifying force e.g....
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Social Theory for a Changing Society » Read Now
by Pierre Bourdieu, James S. Coleman. 392 pgs.

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...Changing Society EDITED BY Pierre Bourdieu and James S. Coleman Westview...changing society / edited by Pierre Bourdieu and James S. Coleman. p...structure. 3. Social...
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French Philosophy of the Sixties: An Essay on Antihumanism (Chap. 5 "French Marxism (Bourdieu)") » Read Now
by Luc Ferry, Alain Renaut, Mary H. S. Cattani. 236 pgs.

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...Their Relation to Culture by Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron dates...Elements dautocritique but also in Bourdieus various efforts to work out a...generation of the...
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Unhastening Science: Autonomy and Reflexivity in the Social Theory of Knowledge (Chap. 5 "Knowledge Politics and Anti-Politics: Bourdieu on Science and Intellectuals") » Read Now
by Dick Pels. 274 pgs.

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This book offers a new account of what makes science special among other human pursuits, critically engaging with a variety of approaches, especially constructivist and relativist studies of science and technology. It focuses on the studied "lack of haste" of science, its relative freedom from...
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This book offers a new account of what makes science special among other human pursuits, critically engaging with a variety of approaches, especially constructivist and relativist studies of science and technology. It focuses on the studied "lack of haste" of science, its relative freedom from stress and its socially sanctioned withdrawal from the swift pace of ordinary life. Unhastening Science offers a balanced and thoughtful argument which emphasizes the dangers of cosseting science from the "scourge" of internal competition while at the same time highlighting the need for "distance" between the process of scientific thought and the faster machinery of politics, business, sports, and the media.
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Language, Subjectivity, and Social Dynamics in the Writings of Pierre Bourdieu, in American Literary History » Read Now
by James Collins. 8 pgs.

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...and Social Dynamics in the Writings of Pierre Bourdieu James Collins Pierre Bourdieus arguments about forms of capital have provided...Misunderstanding and Professorial...
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Veblen, Bourdieu, and Conspicuous Consumption, in Journal of Economic Issues » Read Now
by Andrew B. Trigg. 17 pgs.

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...possible contribution that can be made using the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the sociologist and anthropologist who has been described...Revolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press...
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The Force of Law and Literature: Critiques of Ideology in Jacques Derrida and Pierre Bourdieu, in Mosaic (Winnipeg) » Read Now
by Barbara Leckie. 28 pgs.

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...ideology in Jacques Derrida and Pierre Bourdieu. by Barbara Leckie...interrelate the work of two theorists, Pierre Bourdieu and Derrida, both of whom have...Schocken, 1978...
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Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium (Chap. 4 "Bourdieu's Social Capital: From Distinction to Extinction") » Read Now
by Ben Fine. 294 pgs.

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This volume traces the origins of social capital through the work of Becker, Bourdieu and Coleman, and comprehensively reviews the literature across the social sciences.
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Occidentalism: Images of the West (Chap. 2 "The Kabyle and the French: Occidentalism in Bourdieu's Theory of Practice") » Read Now
by James G. Carrier. 274 pgs.

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...Reed-Danahay "The Kabyle and the French: Occidentalism in Pierre Bourdieus Theory of Practice", an analysis of the two most...Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press...
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Social Theory Put to the Test of Politics: Pierre Bourdieu and Anthony Giddens, in New Left Review » Read Now
by Alex Callinicos. 26 pgs.

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...Put to the Test of Politics: Pierre Bourdieu and Anthony Giddens The...by two leading sociologists, Pierre Bourdieu and Anthony Giddens, is that...decided to embrace them...
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Deconstructing Pierre Bourdieu: Against Sociological Terrorism from the Left » Read Now
by Jeannine Verdes-Leroux. 280 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Pierre Bourdieus masculine domination: A critique...academic sociology (Mesney, 2002), Pierre Bourdieu extended his systematic program of...1999. "Gender, habitus and the...
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Identity and Ideology: Sociocultural Theories of Schooling (Chap. 3 "Reproduction: Symbolic Violence in Educational Systems") » Read Now
by Stanley William Rothstein. 166 pgs.

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Rothstein maintains that schools in all societies inculcate students with ideological understandings of themselves and their economic systems. Using a Freudo-Marxian approach, he explores the impact of capitalism on schooling in America and Europe and traces the formation of the individual's public...
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Rothstein maintains that schools in all societies inculcate students with ideological understandings of themselves and their economic systems. Using a Freudo-Marxian approach, he explores the impact of capitalism on schooling in America and Europe and traces the formation of the individual's public and private identities. The book employs sociological, economic, and psychoanalytic perspectives to study the propagation of capitalist culture through education, and examines the way in which educational institutions reproduce the social relations of school and society. Rothstein concludes that education must be liberated from their arbitrary practices and links with the labor market.
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Contemporary Cultural Theory ("Bourdieu: From the Sociology of Coltore to Critical Theory" begins on p. 86) » Read Now
by Andrew Milner, Jeff Browitt. 280 pgs.

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A fully revised edition of this highly regarded concise introduction to cultural theory.
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Rewriting Literacy: Culture and the Discourse of the Other ("Bourdieu's Model of the Role of Knowledge in Schooling" begins on p. 170) » Read Now
by Candace Mitchell, Kathleen Weiler. 284 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

This book links such fields as linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics, and education to illustrate how the problem of literacy is embedded in a social and cultural context. The majority of the essays are based on original, primary research and bring to light important concerns about the highly...
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This book links such fields as linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics, and education to illustrate how the problem of literacy is embedded in a social and cultural context. The majority of the essays are based on original, primary research and bring to light important concerns about the highly political nature of literacy. These concerns, often ignored by the more traditionally oriented educationalists, are the highlights of these essays that explore literacy from a critical perspective.
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