Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy

Elizabeth Silva is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is a member of the project team of Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion (CCSE) and of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). She has published various sole authored and co-authored articles using CCSE material. Her editing experience includes 4 books and 3 special editions of scholarly journals. Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the project team of Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion and has authored and co-authored several articles using its data. His editing experience includes 8 books and 3 special editions of scholarly journals.

'...boasts an impressive gathering of celebrated (UK, US and French) names, explicitly juxtaposes their clashing claims on Bourdieu’s long-term legacy and thus...neatly encapsulates the current scrimmage in sociology.'-Will Atkinson, University of Bristol in Sociology, vol 46 no 1'This collection of essays, which illustrates a wide range of opinion concerning Bourdieu’s work, is very interesting... Their book shows very concretely and convincingly that a more international and a more strictly scientific discussion is now possible.'- Julien Duval, Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique

• 1. The Importance of Bourdieu Elizabeth Silva and Alan Warde 2. Working with Habitus and Field: the Logic of Bourdieu’s Practice Michael Grenfell 2. ‘Cooking the books’ of the French Gastronomic Field Rick Fantasia 3. Pierre Bourdieu’s political sociology and public sociology David Swartz 3. Dis-identification and class identity Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva and Alan Warde 4. From the Theory of Practice to the Practice of Theory: Working with Bourdieu in research on higher education choice Diane Reay 5. Bourdieu, ethics and practice Andrew Sayer 8. Culture, Power, Knowledge: Between Foucault and Bourdieu Tony Bennett 9. The price of the people: Sociology, performance and reflexivity Antoine Hennion 10. Looking back at Bourdieu Michèle Lamont 11. Bourdieu in a multidimensional perspective Frédéric Lebaron 12. Habitus and classification Fiona Devine 13. Epilogue: Bourdieu’s legacy?Elizabeth Silva and Alan Warde