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“This necessary, powerful, oblique, and misshapen book is part of a grand statement of the sociological imagination. . . . Bourdieu may now be handed the mantle of first maître à penser in Paris.”—Times Literary Supplement
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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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Not an easy book, but if you are faculty or a graduate student you will find this book fascinating. Bourdieu's framework for understanding how seemingly irrational behavior makes sense to the natives is applied to a subject he knows well, French intellectuals. The result is a nice demonstration of his theoretical approach complimented by a sometimes biting insight into what motivated professional academics.
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In choosing to study the social world in which we are involved, we are obliged to confront, in dramatized form as it were, a certain number of fundamental epistemological problems, all related to the question of the difference between practical knowledge and scholarly knowledge, and particularly to the special difficulties involved first in breaking with inside experience and then in reconstituting the knowledge which has been obtained by means of this break. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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In choosing to study the social world in which we are involved, we are obliged to confront, in dramatized form as it were, a certain number of fundamental epistemological problems, all related to the question of the difference between practical knowledge and scholarly knowledge, and particularly to the special difficulties involved first in breaking with inside experience and then in reconstituting the knowledge which has been obtained by means of this break. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
external renown, professorial body, professorial judgement, amicale des anciens élèves, matriculation years, illustrative variables, state doctorate, canonical disciplines, intellectual renown, subordinate teachers, academic capital, academic power, intellectual reviews, university field, assistant lecturers, scientific prestige, bodily hexis, social science faculties, academic diplomas, academic characteristics, academic classification, concours général, university space, university power, university body Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- A Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert on page 159, and Back Matter
- Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Pierre Bourdieu in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Philosophical Remarks by Ludwig Wittgenstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Evolution of Educational Thought: Lectures on the Formation and Development of Secondary Education in France by Emile Durkheim in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Emile Durkheim (Key Sociologists) by Prof Kenneth Thompson in Front Matter
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- French Philosophy of the Sixties: An Essay on Antihumanism by Luc Ferry on 8 pages
- CHALLENGING KNOWLEDGE by DELANTY on 6 pages
- The Field of Cultural Production Essays on Art and Literature by Pierre Bourdieu on 5 pages
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