This volume brings together Pierre Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics.

Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our ...

About the author (1984). Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher. Bibliographic information ...

Pierre Bourdieu is professor of Sociology at the College de France. His numerous other works include Homo Academicus and Language and Symbolic Power.

Jun 24, 2018 ... Originally published as “Okonomisches Kapital, kulturelles Kapital, soziales Kapital,” in Soziale Ungleichheiten (Soziale Welt, ...

Jun 23, 2018 ... Pierre Bourdieu is one of the leading anthro¬ pologists who have worked in Algeria. This book centres on his classic essay, Algeria 1960: The ...

Do social classes really exist? Is disinterested action really possible? What do the family, the church, and the intellectual world have in common?

Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it is so much in line with our expectations that ...

This short critical introduction to the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's original writings are often densely ...

Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of the Center for European Sociology at the École de Hautes Études en Sciences ...