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Acts of Resistance : Against the New Myths of Our Time [Paperback]

Pierre Bourdieu (Author)

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Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: Polity Press (1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0745622186
ISBN-13: 978-0745622187
Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,006,903 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century. A professor of sociology at the Collège de France, he is the author of thirty-six books, including Distinction, named one of the twentieth century's ten most important works of sociology.

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This book cites 2 books:

The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power by Pierre Bourdieu on page 10, and Back Matter
Sociology in Question (Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 18) by Pierre Bourdieu in Back Matter

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