Pierre Bourdieu

Auteur

Richard Jenkins was trained as a social anthropologist and has conducted empirical research in Northern Ireland, England, Wales and Denmark, looking at the transition to adulthood, racism and ethnicity, national identity, moral panics and popular belief. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield.

Texte du rabat

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition.

Contenu

1. Introducing Pierre Bourdieu

2. Reflexive sociology

3. From rules to strategies

4. Experiments in epistemology

5. Practice, habitus and field

6. Symbolic violence and social reproduction

7. Culture, status and distinction

8. The uses of language

9. Using Bourdieu

10. Reading Bourdieu