The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society: Social Suffering and Impoverishment in Contemporary Society [Import] [Paperback]

Pierre Bourdieu (Author)

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Paperback: 656 pages
Publisher: Polity Press (December 30, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0745615937
ISBN-13: 978-0745615936
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.7 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,561,799 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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To understand what happens in places like "projects" or "housing developments" as well as in certain kinds of schools, places which bring together people who have nothing in common and force them to live together, either in mutual ignorance and incomprehension or else in latent or open conflict - with all the suffering this entails - it is not enough to explain each point of view separately. Read the first page

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