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In Other Words: Essays Toward a Reflexive Sociology

By Pierre Bourdieu

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0804717257, 9780804717250
LCC
H59.B66 A3 1990
Open Library ID
OL2066182M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5019628 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
220\220
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This volume of interviews, lectures and informal talks provides an introduction to Bourdieu's work and highlights some of the issues which are at the forefront of the sociology of culture today. Bourdieu situates his work in relation to those thinkers who were influential in the formation of his views, from Marx and Durkheim to Levi-Strauss and Wittgenstein and retraces the development of his ideas from his early ethnographic studies to his most recent work on the sociology of cultural fields. He responds to some of the criticisms which have been made of his work and offers his own criticisms of some of his contemporaries, including Althusser, Foucault and Habermas. The volume also contains contributions to the sociology of symbolic forms of religion and of sport, as well as Bourdieu's inaugral lecture at the College de France.

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