Invitation to Reflexive Sociology

Name: Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
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ISBN: 9780226067414

ISBN-10: 0226067416

ISBN-13: 9780226067414

Edition: 1992 (Reprint)

Authors: Pierre Bourdieu, Loï¿½c J. D. Wacquant

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Over the last three decades, the French sociologist 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 influence of his work, no single introduction to his wide-ranging oeuvre is available. This book, intended for an English-speaking audience, offers a systematic and accessible overview, providing interpretive keys to the internal logic of Bourdieu's work by explicating thematic and methodological principles underlying his work. The structure of Bourdieu's theory of knowledge, practice, and society is first dissected by Loic Wacquant; he then collaborates with Bourdieu in a dialogue in which they…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface



Preface




Toward a Social Praxeology: The Structure and Logic of Bourdieu's Sociology




Beyond the Antinomy of Social Physics and Social Phenomenology



Classification Struggles and the Dialectic of Social and Mental Structures



Methodological Relationalism



The Fuzzy Logic of Practical Sense



Against Theoreticism and Methodologism: Total Social Science



Epistemic Reflexivity



Reason, Ethics, and Politics



The Purpose of Reflexive Sociology (The Chicago Workshop)




Sociology as Socioanalysis



The Unique and the Invariant



The Logic of Fields



Interest, Habitus, Rationality



Language, Gender, and Symbolic Violence



For a, Realpolitik of Reason



The Personal is Social



The Practice of Reflexive Sociology (The Paris Workshop)




Handing Down a Trade



Thinking Relationally



A Radical Doubt



Double Bind and Conversion



Participant Objectivation


Appendixes




How to Read Bourdieu



A Selection of Articles from, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales



Selected Recent Writings on Pierre Bourdieu