Pierre Bourdieu

Derek Robbins is Professor of International Social Theory in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of East London. He is the author of The Work of Pierre Bourdieu (1991) and of Bourdieu and Culture (2000); the editor of the 4-volume collection of articles on Bourdieu in the Sage Masters of Contemporary Social Thought series (2000) and of a 3-volume collection of articles on Lyotard in the same series (2004). His On Bourdieu, Education and Society was published by Bardwell Press in July, 2006, and he was the editor of the Special issue of Theory, Culture and Society on Bourdieu which was published as 23 (6) in November, 2006. In 2007-8 he was in receipt of an ESRC award to study the work of Jean-Claude Passeron, and he has written an introduction to a translation of Passeron′s Le raisonnement sociologique which will be published in 2011 by Bardwell Press, Oxford, as Sociological Reasoning. As Directeur associé in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Marseille in 2009-10 he gave courses on the comparative epistemology of the social sciences, and he is currently exploring the influence of Husserl on 20th Century French social theory, particularly in relation to the development of the thought of Lyotard and Bourdieu.

• PART ONE: LIFE/CAREERFieldwork in Philosophy - Pierre Bourdieu and A Honneth et alThe Personal is Social - Pierre Bourdieu and Loic WacquantPierre Bourdieu - Cheleen MaharThe Intellectual ProjectAbdelmalek Sayad in Interview - Hassan ArfouiLe `d[ac]ecembre des intellectuels fran[ce]cais - J Duval and C Gaubert et alPART TWO: BOURDIEU′S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE/KNOWLEDGE AND HIS METHODOLOGYPractical Sense - G Li[ac]enard and E ServaisKnowing What You Are Doing - G L AcciaioloA Review of Pierre Bourdieu′sProcess without System - M S ArcherClass Reproduction among Men and Women in France - R V Robinson and M A GarnierReproduction Theory on Its Home GroundTheories of Socio-Cultural Reproduction - J-C PasseronThe Return of the Subject? - R GrillerThe Methodology of Pierre BourdieuTeacher Education, Statistical methodologies and the Construction of Knowledge - K L[um]ofgrenScientific Practice and Epistemological A priori - N KauppiDurkheim, Mauss, L[ac]evi-Strauss, BourdieuPART THREE: BOURDIEU′S KEY CONCEPTSCultural CapitalLa sociologie de l′int[ac]er[ci]et est-elle int[ac]eressante? - A Caill[ac]eCultural Capital, Education and Power in New Zealand - R HarkerAn Agenda for ResearchBeyond Cultural Capital - B Martin and Szel[ac]enyiToward a Theory of Symbolic DominationHabitusCulture as a Fundamental Dimension of Experience - J F OstrowA Discussion of Pierre Bourdieu′s Theory of Human HabitusThe Matter of Habit - C CamicLa Seconde Nature de l′Habitus - F H[ac]eranTradition Philosophique et Sens Commun dans le Langage SociologiqueSocial Theory as Habitus in Bourdieu - R BrubakerLa Strat[ac]egie chez Pierre Bourdieu - A DewerpeAn Exercise in Practice - C MaharStudying Migrants to Latin American Squatter SettlementsFieldThe Theory of Fields and the Sociology of Literature - L PintoReflections on the Work of Pierre BourdieuPierre Bourdieus Theorie des Literarischen Feldes - J JurtReproductionPierre Bourdieu and the Reproduction of Determinism - R JenkinsOn Reproduction, Habitus and Education - R K HarkerProducing and Reproducing Knowledge - K D KnorrDescriptive or Constructive?PART FOUR: INTELLECTUAL FIELDSEducationPierre Bourdieu - D SwartzThe Cultural Transmission of Social InequalityUnderstanding School Knowledge - K L GorderA Critical Appraisal of Basil Bernstein and Pierre BourdieuReading Bourdieu′s`Capital′ - L WacquantAnthropologyObservations on Anthropological Thinking about the Culture Concept - O LeeClifford Geertz and Pierre BourdieuStructure, Context and Strategy in Musical Ethnography - T TurinoGifts, Bribes, and Guanxi - A SmartPhilosophyOverdue Analysis of Bourdieu′s Theory of Practice - T SchatzkiMetatheorizing in Sociology - G RitzerTo Follow a Rule... - C TaylorBourdieu and Anglo-American Philosophy - R ShustermanEmpiricism and the Norms of Scientific Knowledge - E NemethSome Reflections on Otto Neurath and Pierre BourdieuBourdieu au-del[gr]a et en de[ce]ca de Marx - Tony Andr[ac]eaniThe Real is Relational - F vandenbergheAn Epistemological Analysis of Pierre Bourdieu′s Generative StructuralismSociologyThe Fragmented World of Symbolic Forms - A HonnethReflections on Pierre Bourdieu′s Sociology of CultureThe Cultural Dimensions of Class Formation and Class Struggle - C JoppkeOn the Social Theory of Pierre BourdieuAccounting for Tastes - J FrowSome Problems in Bourdieu′s Sociology of CulturePutting the Sociologist in the Sociology of Culture - C CalhounThe Self-Reflexive Scholarship of Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond WilliamsThe Intellectual Field, Intellectual History and the Sociology of Knowledge - F RingerRethinking Classical Theory - R BrubakerThe Sociological Vision of Pierre Bourdieu′Racism and Postmodernism - P ConnollyTowards a Theory of PracticeClass Stratification and Cultural Consumption - G MurdockSome Motifs in the Work of Pierre BourdieuSociology, Common Sense, and Qualitative Methodology - J HamelThe Position of Pierre Bourdieu and Alan TouraineLinguisticsNotes on Semantics in Linguistic Practice - W F HanksIntroduction to Pierre Bourdieu - J B ThompsonLanguage and Symbolic PowerCultural StudiesPierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Culture - N Garnham and R WilliamsAn IntroductionSociety Made Visible - on the Cultural Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu - P SulkunenDoes the Working Class Have a Culture in the Anthropological Sense? - D E FoleyDoing Cultural Studies Bourdieu′s Way - Marie-Pierre Le HerPopular Culture as Barbaric Culture - B RigbyThe Sociology of Pierre BourdieuPART FIVE: TRANSNATIONAL TRANSMISSIONThe English Preface to Homo Academicus - Pierre BourdieuBourdieu in America - L WacquantNotes on the Transatlantic Importation of Social TheoryBourdieu in England, 1964-1977 - D M RobbinsThe International Transmission of Ideas - D M RobbinsPierre Bourdieu in Theory and PracticeBourdieu in (No) Other Words - Lauretta CloughBourdieu Out of Europe? - Everlyn NicodemusTranspositioning Social-Science Capital Across Borders - Daniel SimeoniThe Cases of Freud, Weber, BourdieuPART SIX: APPLICATIONSSocial Space and Symbolic Space - Pierre BourdieuHabitus and Peasantization in Nigeria - M SchiltzA Yoruba Case-StudyEthnicity and Practice - G C BentleyDiscourse Genres in a Theory of Practice - W F HanksThe Relationship between Sport Involvement and Life-Style in Youth Cultures - H-G SackThe Literary Field - J Gerhards and H K AnheierAn Empirical Investigation of Bourdieu′s Sociology of ArtSocial Order, Cultural Capital and Citizenship - J C L Rupp and R de LangeAn Essay Concerning Educational Status and Educational Power Versus Comprehensiveness of Elementary SchoolsAn Empirical Perspectice on Practice - Robert VannOperationalising Bourdieu′s Notions of Linguistic HabitusA Cultural Field in the Making - Priscilla Parkhurst FergusonGastronomy in 19th Century FranceCultural Changes in a Norwegian Urban Community - Lennart RosenlundApplying Pierre Bourdieu′s Approach and Analytical FrameworkA House Turned Inside Out - G Vom BruckInhabiting Space in a Yemeni CityIn Search of the Finnish New Middle Class - J P Roos and Keijo RahkonenLanguage and Symbolic Power - A Goke-PariolaBourdieu and the Legacy of Euro-American Colonialism in an African SocietyAppropriating Bourdieu - T MoiFeminist Theory and Bourdieu′s Sociology of CultureExplorations in Social Spaces - U Wuggenig and P MnichGender, Age, Class Fractions and Photographical Choices of ObjectsPART SEVEN: WAYS OF READING BOURDIEUReading Bourdieu - R JenkinsHow to Read Bourdieu - L WacquantCataloging Pierre Bourdieu′s Books - R U Alvarado