The work of French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu has been influential across a set of cognate disciplines that can be classified as physical culture studies. Concepts such as field, capital, habitus and symbolic violence have been used as theoretical tools by scholars a[...]

In this volume scholars from around the world focus on how a Bourdieusian stance can enable a powerful socicultural and cultural analysis of literacy education theory and practice and serve as an effective tool in analyzing relations of hierarchy and domination. Although there has been a growing bod[...]

This Critical Reader provides a new perspective on the work of Francea s foremost social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, by examining its philosophical import and promoting a fruitful dialogue between Bourdieu and philosophers in the English--speaking world. The contributors include leading philosophers [...]

This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts e[...]

'A refreshing attack on the neuroses of news gathering ...these anxieties have never been expressed more intelligently and forcefully than in Bourdieu's book. It should be on the reading list not just of every journalist, but of everybody on the receiving end of the media.' The Guardian 'I recomm[...]

A sociological analysis of modern intellectual culture, aiming to show that the academy is not just a realm of dialogue and debate, but also a sphere of power in which reputations and careers are made, defended and destroyed. Key figures such as Foucault, Levi-Strauss and Derrida are discussed.[...]

Now available in paperback, this book offers a major statement of Bourdieua s theoretical approach, illustrating it with examples from anthropology. It will consolidate his reputation as one of the most original and exciting theorists in the social sciences today. Drawing on his own field work as we[...]

This volume presents the best critical appraisal of Bourdieua s work currently available. It raises a variety of crucial theoretical questions that are important to understanding Bourdieu and includes an essay by Bourdieu in reply to his critics.[...]

The author clarifies and elaborates on the fundamental charcteristics of his theoretical approach, covering a wide range of substantive issues, from the formation of the modern state to the social conditions of political morality. Aimed at students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, politic[...]

Education depends crucially on language: knowledge and skills are taught largely through a process of linguistic exchange. But how much of the language used by teachers and professors is actually understood by students? To what extent does the social background of students affect their capacity to u[...]

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 love of art, while others are deprived of it.[...]

aeoA major new work by Bourdieu containing one of his most important and systematic theoretical statements. aeoThe book develops a powerful critique of scholarly reason, as a form of thought which is rooted in the special conditions of scholasticism.[...]

Male domination is so anchored in our unconscious that we hardly perceive it any more. Pierre Bourdieu's ethnographic description of Kabyle society provides an extremely powerful instrument to dissolve taken-for-granted truths and explore the symbolic structures of this androcentric unconscious.[...]