The most significant French sociologist since Durkheim, Pierre
Bourdieu's influence on intellectual life shows no sign of abating. He
was a prolific and consequential scholar whose impact can be measured by
the Social Science Citation Index and international surveys of
academics. Conceptualizations, such as habitus and field, his heuristic
treatment of cultural, economic, political, social and symbolic capital
to analyze the uses of power, and his insistence upon melding the
usually separated micro and macro levels of societal theorizing are now
embedded in the basic vocabulary of sociology and anthropology. Whether
or not in accord with his outlook, serious scholars are obliged to test
themselves against his challenges. Bourdieu also played a considerable
role as a public intellectual, taking positions on questions vital to
France and to the world more generally. Many of his contributions stem
from his important research projects: colonialism, educational
inequality, the social foundations of taste in the arts and life styles,
social reproduction of status relationships, and more recently, the
impact of unchecked globalism on the disadvantaged. The articles in this
book represent a sampling of the most recent and durable of the ongoing
conversations, debates, and research orientations that Bourdieu
launched.
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