This volume presents a critical appraisal of Bourdieu's work, spanning the fields of sociology, anthropology and cultural studies. The essays show how Bourdieu's voluminous work forms a distinctive intellectual approach, compare Bourdieu's analytic approach to others current in Anglo-American sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, and raise a variety of crucial theoretical questions that are important to understanding Bourdieu. In an essay written especially for this volume, Bourdieu describes his own "mode of ...
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This volume presents a critical appraisal of Bourdieu's work, spanning the fields of sociology, anthropology and cultural studies. The essays show how Bourdieu's voluminous work forms a distinctive intellectual approach, compare Bourdieu's analytic approach to others current in Anglo-American sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, and raise a variety of crucial theoretical questions that are important to understanding Bourdieu. In an essay written especially for this volume, Bourdieu describes his own "mode of intellectual production" and the reasons for its common misunderstanding. This book should be of interest to undergraduate students in social theory, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.
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