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1	Outline of a Theory of Practice more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist 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 the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $24.89! \| SVS
2	The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Societies more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist Under the direction of Pierre Bourdieu, a team of 22 researchers spent three years studying and analyzing the new forces of social suffering that characterize contemporary societies. see all copies from $10.98! new only from $17.46! \| SVS
3	The Field of Cultural Production more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu, Professor Lawrence D Kritzman (Editor), Professor Randal Johnson (Editor) add to wishlist 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 on art and literature and provides the first introduction to Bourdieu's writings and theory of a ... see all copies from $11.95! new only from $19.30! \| SVS
4	Logic of Practice more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist The Logic of Practice has established itself as a modern classic in the social sciences. It provides a systematic account of Bourdieu's theoretical approach and confirms his reputation as one of the most original and exciting thinkers in the social sciences today. Drawing on his own fieldwork as well as wide range of ethnographic and ... see all copies from $18.50! new only from $21.21! \| first editions \| SVS
5	An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology more books like this by Pierre Boudieu, Professor Loic Wacquant, Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the influence of his work, no single introduction to his wide-ranging "oeuvre" is available. This book, intended for an English-speaking audience, offers a ... see all copies from $11.13! new only from $26.96! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Rules of Art - Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist This is Bourdieu's long-awaited study of Flaubert and the formation of the modern literary field.It was in the nineteenth century that the literary universe as we know it today took shape, as a space set apart from the approved academies of the state. No one could any longer dictate with authority what ought to be written, or decree the canons of ... see all copies from $20.99! new only from $23.46! \| SVS
7	Field of Cultural Production - Essays on Art and Literature more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics. Bourdieu develops a highly original approach to the study of literary and artistic works, addressing many of the key issues that have preoccupied literary, art and cultural criticism in the late twentieth century: aesthetic value ... see all copies from $21.99! new only from $29.37! \| SVS
8	Language Symbolic Power P more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu, John Thompson (Editor), Gino Raymond (Translator) add to wishlist This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated by Austin and others. He argues that ... see all copies from $22.50! new only from $36.50!
9	Masculine domination more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist 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 Bourdieu's ethnographic analysis of gender divisions in Kabyle society, as a living reservoir of the Mediterranean cultural tradition, ... see all copies from $12.49! new only from $16.71! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market 2 more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu, Professor Loic Wacquant (Translator) add to wishlist Continuing the themes of "Acts of Resistance, Firing Back" is an eloquent dissection of globalization's intellectual and cultural role throughout the world, and a discussion of the ways in which effective opposition to it can be mounted. Includes a new Preface by the author. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
11 view cover	Reproduction: In Education, Society and Culture more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Claude Passeron add to wishlist The way in which the ruling ideas of a social system are related to structures of class, production and power, and how these are legitimated and perpetuated, is fundamental to the sociological project. In this second edition of this classic text, which includes a new introduction by Pierre Bourdieu, the authors develop an analysis of education (in ... see all copies from $29.23! new only from $38.37! \| SVS
12 view cover	Sociology in question more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice (Translator) add to wishlist The works of Pierre Bourdieu occupy a central place in the current development of world sociology. This volume offers an accessible but challenging introduction to Bourdieu's ideas. In a series of discussions, lectures and interviews, the range of Bourdieu's ideas is laid out and its relation to other disciplines and other sociological schools is ... see all copies from $35.00! new only from $38.17! \| SVS
13	The Love of Art: European Art Museums and Their Public more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist Everyone can visit the art treasures held in the great museums of the world yet, in fact, art museums are visited by only a small segment of the population. What are the characteristics of those who display their love of art by strolling through the galleries of museums? What distinguishes them from the majority of people who are effectively ... see all copies from $30.39! new only from $30.39!
14 view cover	On Television more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (Translator) add to wishlist This critical analysis of television and its effects on culture takes aim at the networks and their failure to provide the public with stimulating, broad-based programming. The author contends that the networks' dependence on ratings and the proliferation of celebrity reporting encourages ignorance and passivity, and has an adverse effect on ... see all copies from $4.75! new only from $49.40! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Suffering of the Immigrant more books like this by Abdelmalek Sayad, David Macey (Translator), Professor Pierre Bourdieu (Preface by) add to wishlist This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader's understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad's book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration and identity in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, politics and geography. It is an ... see all copies from $24.75! new only from $35.57! \| SVS
16 view cover	In Other Words: Essays Toward a Reflexive Sociology more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu, Matthew Adamson (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $12.99! new only from $18.40! \| SVS
17 view cover	The State Nobility: 'Grandes Ecoles' and Esprit de Corps more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu, Professor Loic Wacquant (Foreword by), Lauretta C Clough (Translator) add to wishlist Examining in detail the work of consecration carried out by elite education systems, Bourdieu analyzes the distinctive forms of power--political, intellectual, bureaucratic, and economic--by means of which contemporary societies are governed. see all copies from $25.00! new only from $34.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Time of the Gypsies more books like this by Michael Stewart, John Comaroff (Editor), Professor Pierre Bourdieu (Editor) add to wishlist Offers an intimate view of the Hungarian Gypsies who, despite persecution, hostility, and racism, have managed to retain their rich cultural and communal heritage.. The Time of the Gypsies is about the refusal of one group of Gypsiesthe Romto abandon their way of life and accept assimilation into the majority population. It is a story about the ... see all copies from $16.95! new only from $16.95! \| SVS
19 view cover	Political Interventions: Social Science and Political Action more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu, David Fernbach (Translator), Franck Poupeau (Text by) add to wishlist Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential critical social theorists of the second half of the twentieth century, once described sociology as "a combat sport." This comprehensive collection of his writings on politics and social science from the Algerian War of Independence in the early 1960s to the last text he published before his death bears ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $24.00! \| SVS
20 view cover	Photography: A Middle-Brow Art more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu (Editor) add to wishlist The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers - the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the wedding portraits - may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But Bourdieu and his associates show that few cultural activities are more structured and systematic than the social uses of this ordinary art. This ... see all copies from $18.48! new only from $21.91! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Practical Reason -On the Theory of Action more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist In this new volume Pierre Bourdieu - one of the foremost social thinkers of our time - clarifies and elaborates the most fundamental characteristics of his theoretical approach. Bourdieu's theory is both a relational philosophy of science dedicated to revealing the objective relations which shape and underpin social life, and a philosophy of ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $15.51! \| SVS
22 view cover	Language and Symbolic Power more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations between language, power and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated by Austin and others. He argues that ... see all copies from $29.75! new only from $29.75!
23 view cover	The political ontology of Martin Heidegger more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist This book is an important and timely contribution to the debate concerning the relation between Heidegger'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 today, of some of the institutional mechanisms involved in the production of philosophical discourse. ... see all copies from $19.59! new only from $19.59! \| first editions
24 view cover	Free Exchange more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu, Hans Haacke add to wishlist How can we affirm the independence of critical artists and intellectuals when confronted by the new crusaders of Western culture, the neo-conservative champions of morality and good taste, the sponsorship of multinationals and the patronage of the state, and the self-indulgent preoccupations of fashionable theorists who have lost all touch with ... see all copies from $29.24! new only from $35.11! \| SVS
25 view cover	Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice (Translator) add to wishlist A devastating critique of free-market politics from distinguished sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. see all copies from $4.55! new only from $13.94! \| first editions \| SVS

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