Pierre Bourdieu : key concepts / edited by Michael Grenfell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grenfell, Michael, author.

Grenfell, Michael, 1953- author.

Series:

Key Concepts (Acumen Publishing)

Key Concepts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.

Bourdieu, Pierre.

Sociologists--France--Biography.

Sociologists.

Culture--Philosophy.

Culture.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

xi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen, 2012.

Summary:

Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts highlights his most important concepts and examines them in detail. Each chapter deals with an individual concept and is written to be of immediate use to the student with little or no previous knowledge of Bourdieu. This new edition of the leading text is entirely revised and updated and includes new essays on Methodology, Politics and Social Space.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface to the second edition""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Biography, theory and practice""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Biography""; ""2. Theory of practice""; ""Part II: Field theory beyond subjectivity and objectivity""; ""Introduction""; ""3. Habitus""; ""4. Field""; ""Part III: Field mechanisms""; ""Introduction""; ""5. Social class""; ""6. Capital""; ""7. Doxa""; ""8. Hysteresis""; ""Part IV: Field conditions""; ""Introduction""; ""9. Interest""; ""10. Conatus""; ""11. Suffering/symbolic violence""

""12. Reflexivity""""Part V: Applications""; ""Introduction""; ""13. Methodology""; ""14. Social space""; ""15. Politics""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chronology of life and work""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-284) and index.

ISBN:

1-317-54737-3

1-84465-531-8