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After Bourdieu

Influence, Critique, Elaboration

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Editors:
  1. David L. Swartz

    1. Sociology Department, Boston University, USA

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  2. Vera L. Zolberg

    1. Sociology Department, New School for Social Research, USA

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  • Now in paperback, the first English language book to assess and elaborate posthumously many of the key contributions of Pierre Bourdieu, the most significant French sociologist since Durkheim
  • Over a dozen scholars from Europe and the United States contribute a sampling of the most recent and durable of the ongoing conversations, debates, and research orientations that Bourdieu launched
  • Offers insight into central features of his sociology and examples of original research inspired by Boutdieu. No less important was Bourdieu's role as a public intellectual, whose critique of developments in contemporary society continue to reverberate in the debates surrounding globalism, privatization, and their effects on the disadvantaged

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction: Drawing inspiration from Bourdieu

    1. Introduction: Drawing inspiration from Bourdieu

      • David L. Swartz, Vera L. Zolberg
      Pages 1-13

  3. Intellectual Origins & Orientations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. In memoriam: Pierre Bourdieu 1930–2002

      • David L. Swartz
      Pages 17-23

    3. Rethinking classical theory

      • Rogers Brubaker
      Pages 25-64

    4. Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of religion: A central and peripheral concern

      • Erwam Dianteill
      Pages 65-85

    5. Pierre Bourdieu: Economic models against economism

      • Frédéric Lebaron
      Pages 87-101

  4. Culture and Fields

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Cultural capital in educational research: A critical assessment

      • Annette Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger
      Pages 105-144

    3. Forms of politicization in the French literary field

      • Giseèle Sapiro
      Pages 145-164

    4. Media meta-capital: Extending the range of Bourdieu’s field theory

      • Nick Couldry
      Pages 165-189

  5. Economics as a Cultural and Social Domain

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. Flesh and the free market: (On taking Bourdieu to the options exchange)

      • Richard Widick
      Pages 193-237

    3. On the wealth of nations: Bourdieuconomics and social capital

      • Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
      Pages 239-263

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 365-371
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critical evaluations of his work, notably papers by Rodney Benson, 4 Rogers Brubaker, Nick Crossley, and John Myles. Indeed, it is the 1985 article by Rogers Brubaker that can truly be said to have served as one of the best introductions to Bourdieu’s thought for the American social scienti?c public. It is for this reason that we include it in the present collection. Intellectual origins & orientations We begin by providing an overview of Bourdieu’s life as a scholar and a public intellectual. The numerous obituaries and memorial tributes that have appeared following Bourdieu’s untimely death have revealed something of his life and career, but few have stressed the intersection of his social origins, career trajectory, and public intellectual life with the changing political and social context of France. This is precisely what David Swartz’s “In memoriam” attempts to accomplish. In it he emphasizes the coincidence of Bourdieu’s young and later adulthood with the period of decolonization, the May 1968 French university crisis, the opening up of France to privatization of many domains previously entrusted to the state (l’état providence), and, most threatening to post-World War II reforms, the emergence of globalization as the hegemonic structure of the 21st century. An orienting theme throughout Bourdieu’s work warns against the partial and fractured views of social reality generated by the fundamental subject/object dichotomy that has plagued social science from its very beginning.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sociology Department, Boston University, USA

    David L. Swartz

  • Sociology Department, New School for Social Research, USA

    Vera L. Zolberg

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: After Bourdieu

  • Book Subtitle: Influence, Critique, Elaboration

  • Editors: David L. Swartz, Vera L. Zolberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2589-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2588-4Published: 10 August 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3852-5Published: 15 July 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2589-1Published: 28 February 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 371

  • Additional Information: Partly reprinted from THEORY AND SOCIETY, 32:5-6

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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