The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu

The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu

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  • Author: Simon Susen
  • Publisher: Anthem Press
  • ISBN: 1783080728
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 470

These critical essays bring together prominent scholars in the social sciences to consider the diverse nature of the legacy of Pierre Bourdieu in contemporary social theory. In offering a range of perspectives on the continuing relevance of Bourdieu’s sociology, the essays of this volume examine Bourdieu’s relationship to both classical and contemporary social theory. This collection constructs an intellectual bridge between French-speaking and English-speaking accounts of Bourdieu’s work.


The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu

The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu

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  • Author: Thomas Medvetz
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0190874619
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 696

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social thinkers of the past half-century, known for both his theoretical and methodological contributions and his wide-ranging empirical investigations into colonial power in Algeria, the educational system in France, the forms of state power, and the history of artistic and scientific fields-among many other topics. Despite the depth and breadth of his influence, however, Bourdieu's legacy has yet to be assessed in a comprehensive manner. The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu fills this gap by offering a sweeping overview of Bourdieu's impact on the social sciences and humanities. Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz have gathered a diverse array of leading scholars who place Bourdieu's work in the wider scope of intellectual history, trace the development of his thought, offer original interpretations and critical engagement, and discuss the likely impact of his ideas on future social research. The Handbook highlights Bourdieu's contributions to established areas of research-including the study of markets, the law, cultural production, and politics-and illustrates how his concepts have generated new fields and objects of study.


Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals

Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals

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  • Author: David L. Swartz
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 0226925021
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 303

Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that symbolic power—the power to dominate—is solely symbolic. He emphasized that symbolic power helps create and maintain social hierarchies, which form the very bedrock of political life. By the time of his death in 2002, Bourdieu had become a leading public intellectual, and his argument about the more subtle and influential ways that cultural resources and symbolic categories prevail in power arrangements and practices had gained broad recognition. In Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals, David L. Swartz delves deeply into Bourdieu’s work to show how central—but often overlooked—power and politics are to an understanding of sociology. Arguing that power and politics stand at the core of Bourdieu’s sociology, Swartz illuminates Bourdieu’s political project for the social sciences, as well as Bourdieu’s own political activism, explaining how sociology is not just science but also a crucial form of political engagement.


Pierre Bourdieu: A Heroic Structuralism

Pierre Bourdieu: A Heroic Structuralism

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  • Author: Jean-Louis Fabiani
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004442618
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 206

Can one speak dispassionately about Pierre Bourdieu? Jean-Louis Fabiani’s book is an attempt to apply Bourdieu’s analytical tools to his own work. Testing their limitations and their potential ambiguity allows the author to shed new light on the social genesis of his main concepts and on the complex relationship between science and politics.


Locating Bourdieu

Locating Bourdieu

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  • Author: Deborah Reed-Danahay
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • ISBN: 0253217326
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

Pierre Bourdieu's work viewed within the context of his life and times.


Culture and Power

Culture and Power

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  • Author: David Swartz
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 022616165X
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 343

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 issues. The book also shows how Bourdieu has synthesized his theory of practices and symbolic power from Durkheim, Marx, and Weber, and how his work was influenced by Sartre, Levi-Strauss, and Althusser. Culture and Power is the first book to offer both a sympathetic and critical examination of Bourdieu's work and it will be invaluable to social scientists as well as to a broader audience in the humanities.


Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art

Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art

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  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004356711
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 476

In Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art, Jeffrey A. Halley and Daglind E. Sonolet offer an account of the very lively Francophone debates over Pierre Bourdieu’s work in the domain of the arts and culture.


The Persistence of Taste

The Persistence of Taste

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  • Author: Malcolm Quinn
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317207513
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 386

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of taste. For the first time, this book unites sociologists and other social scientists with artists and curators, art theorists and art educators, and art, design and cultural historians who engage with the practice of taste as it relates to encounters with art, cultural institutions and the practices of everyday life, in national and transnational contexts. The volume is divided into four sections. The first section on ‘Taste and art’, shows how art practice was drawn into the sphere of ‘good taste’, contrasting this with a post-conceptualist critique that offers a challenge to the social functions of good taste through an encounter with art. The next section on ‘Taste making and the museum’ examines the challenges and changing social, political and organisational dynamics propelling museums beyond the terms of a supposedly universal institution and language of taste. The third section of the book, ‘Taste after Bourdieu in Japan’ offers a case study of the challenges to the cross-cultural transmission and local reproduction of ‘good taste’, exemplified by the complex cultural context of Japan. The final section on ‘Taste, the home and everyday life’ juxtaposes the analysis of the reproduction of inequality and alienation through taste, with arguments on how the legacy of ideas of ‘good taste’ have extended the possibilities of experience and sharpened our consciousness of identity. As the first book to bring together arts practitioners and theorists with sociologists and other social scientists to examine the legacy and continuing validity of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of taste, this publication engages with the opportunities and problems involved in understanding the social value and the cultural dispositions of taste ‘after Bourdieu’. It does so at a moment when the practice of taste is being radically changed by the global expansion of cultural choices, and the emergence of deploying impersonal algorithms as solutions to cultural and creative decision-making.


The Field of Cultural Production

The Field of Cultural Production

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  • Author: Pierre Bourdieu
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231082877
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 342

Analysis of art, literature and aesthetics


Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy

Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy

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  • Author: Elizabeth Silva
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134005857
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 195

Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars. This edited collection offers sustained critical engagement, substantiated by new empirical work. It presents concrete evidence of different approaches to the interpretation of culture in Britain, France and the USA. Discussions are situated in relation to current debates about cultural analysis, in particular the vibrant and extensive disputes concerning the applicability of Bourdieu’s concepts and methods. Subsequently, implications for the future of research work in cultural analysis, including into theory and methods, are drawn. The contributing authors offer key interpretations of the work of Bordieu, arguments for alternative approaches to cultural analysis, and critical applications of his concepts in empirical analysis. This book is essential reading for graduate students of sociology, cultural studies, social anthropology or cultural geography, providing great insight into the work of one of the most eminent contemporary scholars in the field of cultural analysis.