Culture and Power The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

Name: Culture and Power The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
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ISBN: 9780226785950

ISBN-10: 0226785955

ISBN-13: 9780226785950

Edition: 1997 (Reprint)

Authors: David Swartz

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Pierre Bourdieu is one of the world's most important social theorists and is also one of the great empirical researchers in contemporary sociology. However, reading Bourdieu can be difficult for those not familiar with the French cultural context, and until now a comprehensive introduction to Bourdieu's oeuvre has not been available. David Swartz focuses on a central theme in Bourdieu's work—the complex relationship between culture and power—and explains that sociology for Bourdieu is a mode of political intervention. Swartz clarifies Bourdieu's difficult concepts, noting where they have been misinterpreted by critics and where they have fallen short in resolving important analytical…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.87" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Introducing Pierre Bourdieu



Career and Formative Intellectual Influences



Bourdieu's Metatheory of Sociological Knowledge



Bourdieu's Political Economy of Symbolic Power



Habitus: A Cultural Theory of Action



Fields of Struggle for Power



Social Classes and the Struggle for Power



Education, Culture, and Social Inequality



Intellectuals and Intellectual Fields



The Scientific Intellectual and Politics



The Struggle for Objectivity: Bourdieu's Call for Reflexive Sociology



Conclusion


References


Author Index


Subject Index