Pierre Bourdieu har i denna bok samlat ett antal föreläsningar som genom konkreta exempel redogör för grundtankarna och de centrala begreppen i hans teori.Bourdieu beskriver sin vetenskapsfilosofi som relationell, den sätter relationer före substant…
* Pierre Bourdieu is one of the world's leading sociologists whose work has become increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. * A clear and accessible introduction to Bourdieu's views on science and scientific knowledge.
One of the worlda s leading social thinkers, Bourdieua s work has become increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. In this new book he embarks on a sociological analysis of science and its legitimacy. Bourdieu argues th…
Pierre Bourdieu har i Kultur och kritik samlat anföranden, debattinlägg och intervjuer där han försökt ge svar på de viktigaste frågor sociologin ställer sig. Kultur och kritik innehåller reflektioner över den sociologiska metoden och över grundlägg…
In this highly original work, Pierre Bourdieu turns his attention to the academic world of which he is part and offers a brilliant analysis of modern intellectual culture. The academy is shown to be not just a realm of dialogue and debate, but also…
No judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focuses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and prefer…
In this major new work, Bourdieu pushes the critique of scholastic reason to a point which most questionings leave untouched.
A synthesis of forty years' work by France's leading sociologist, this book pushes the critique of scholarly reason to a new level. It is a brilliant example of Bourdieu's unique ability to link sociological theory, historical information, and philo…
Male domination is so anchored in our unconscious that we hardly perceive it any more. Pierre Bourdieu's ethnographic description of Kabyle society provides an extremely powerful instrument to dissolve taken-for-granted truths and explore the symbol…
Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it is so much in line with our expectations that we find it difficult to call into question. Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of Kabyle society pro…
Masculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. It is so much in line with our expectations that we struggle to call it fully into question. Pierre Bourdieua s ethnographic analysis of ge…
I Sverige har högre utbildning aldrig varit mer lättillgänglig än i dag. Runt hälften av alla gymnasister går vidare till högskola och universitet. Men de ursprungliga förhoppningarna om ökad social rörlighet och utjämnade klasskillnader har inte up…
När vi försöker få grepp om den manliga dominansen riskerar vi att ta hjälp av sätt att tänka som själva är en produkt av denna dominans, påpekar sociologen Pierre Bourdieu i Den manliga dominansen. Boken diskuterar mäns makt över kvinnor och hur de…
No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First pub…
Bourdieu considers the study of literary and artistic works, addressing issues that have preoccupied criticism in the late 20th century: aesthetic value and judgement; the social contexts of cultural practice; the role of intellectuals and artists;…
A sociological analysis of modern intellectual culture, aiming to show that the academy is not just a realm of dialogue and debate, but also a sphere of power in which reputations and careers are made, defended and destroyed. Key figures such as Fou…
What is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of Edouard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as…
Over the last four decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died two years ago, he was considered to be a thinker on a par with Foucault, Bart…
Between 1954 and 1960, in the midst of the Algerian War, more than two million Algerian peasants - a quarter of the population - were forcibly resettled. They were removed from their homes and villages and relocated in camps controlled by the French…
This is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual…
This is Bourdieua s long--awaited study of Flaubert and the formation of the modern literary field, it is an important contribution to the study of the social and historical conditions of literary works.
This work presents a collection of stories from ordinary people expressing the state of society and the kinds of social exclusion, marginalization and impoverishment which are increasingly widespread.
Confined in their governmental ivory towers, their actions largely dictated by public opinion polls, politicians and state officials are all too often oblivious to the everyday lives of ordinary citizens. These persons, who often experience so much…
Pierre Bourdieus sociologi kräver självreflexion av sociologen och den intellektuelle. Genom att analysera det fält där jag själv vistas, reglerna för hur nya inträdande upptas i gemenskapen, vilka investeringar och insatser som krävs för att delta…
Now available in paperback, this book offers a major statement of Bourdieua s theoretical approach, illustrating it with examples from anthropology. It will consolidate his reputation as one of the most original and exciting theorists in the social…
Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the rel…
During the last two decades, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has become a dominant force in cultural activity ranging from taste in music and art to choices in food and lifestyles. The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's major essays…
Examines the ways in which power is bolstered and extended by means of symbols. The book considers the importance of ritual in confirming institutions, looks at ways in which organs of power attempt to control discourse and explores the ways in whic…
Outline of a theory of practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of t…
This is the first of five volumes that will be based on lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an inte…
Replete with madwomen, murderers, musicians, and mystics, Lonely Woman dramatically interweaves the lives of five women. It remains Takako Takahashi's most sustained and multifaceted fictional realization of her concept of "loneliness." Her fiction…
What is the nature of the modern state? How did it come into being and what are the characteristics of this distinctive field of power that has come to play such a central role in the shaping of all spheres of social, political and economic life? In…
Vårt samhälle beskrivs ofta som ett kunskapssamhälle. Allt fler tillbringar allt större del av sina liv i utbildningsinstitutioner. Inom politiken diskuteras ständigt hur kriser inom utbildningsväsendet ska lösas eller hur fler ska bli mer välutbild…
A surprising bestseller when it was first published in France, this little book by Pierre Bourdieu offers a brilliant critique of television and its consequences for social and political life. Rather than simply denouncing television as a misreprese…
An unremitting assault on the impact and pretensions of television that demolishes conventional arguments.' - TLS'
This book is an important and timely contribution to the debate concerning the relation between Heideggera s philosophy and his political affiliations to Nazism. But it is more than that: it is also a study, by the leading sociologist in France toda…
Martin Heidegger's overt alliance with the Nazis and the specific relation between this alliance and his philosophical thought-the degree to which his concepts are linked to a thoroughly disreputable set of political beliefs-have been the topic of a…
Boken er et forsøk på å skape en syntese av de arbeider Bourdieu har gjort gjennom mer enn 40 år, og en slags selvrefleksjon. Har person- og saksregister.
'This is not an autobiography.' Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu's commitment to a reflexive sociology led him ineluctably to take on the final challenge of a self socio-analysis in which he recounts and analyses, more fully and intimately than ever…
In this major work, Bourdieu examines the distinctive forms of power - political, intellectual, bureaucratic and economic - by means of which contemporary societies are governed. What kinds of competence are claimed by the bureaucrats and technocrat…
In this major new work, Pierre Bourdieu examines the distinctive forms of power--political, intellectual, bureaucratic, and economic--by means of which contemporary societies are governed. What kinds of competence are claimed by the bureaucrats and…
Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self--evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corr…
Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corre…
Sigtet med bogen er at vise, bl.a. gennem en lang dialog mellem Wacquant og Bourdieu, hvordan sidstnævnte som samfundsforsker tænker sine begreber ind i en metode og knytter dem sammen i en konkret praksis. Oversat fra fransk efter Repon…
Siden 1960´erne er optaget på de højere uddannelser vokset eksplosivt i Danmark og i resten af den vestlige verden. Håbet og forventningen om, at en sådan udvikling ville øge den sociale mobilitet og på sigt bidrage til at udjævne klasseskellene i s…
Kunst oder Geld? Das Werk als Text . Der Sinn der Geschichte. Die staatliche Konstruktion des Geistes. Interessenfreiheit als Leidenschaft. Das Lachen der Bischöfe. Die Theorie der theoretischen Sicht.
I disse artiklene avdekker den franske sosiologen Bourdieu tilslørte former for makt og skjult vold, i tolkninger av nære og fjerne fenomener.
Pierre Bourdieus Werk stellt für die etablierten Denkweisen der Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften nach wie vor eine Herausforderung dar. Der vorliegende Band unternimmt im kritischen Dialog mit Bourdieu den Versuch einer Rekonstruktion seiner E…
