Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu

Derek Robbins is Emeritus Professor of International Social Theory in the School of Social Sciences, University of East London.

The Anthem Companions to Sociology offers wide ranging and masterly overviews of the works of major sociologists. The volumes in the series provide authoritative and critical appraisals of key figures in modern social thought. These books, written and edited by leading figures, are essential additional reading on the history of sociology. — Gerard Delanty, Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex, Brighton

• Acknowledgements; Editor’s Introduction; Part I:Aspects of Bourdieu’s thought; 1. Reading Bourdieu phenomenologically. Derek Robbins; 2. The Sociological Challenge of Reflexivity in Bourdieusian Thought. Simon Susen; 3. Sociology at the Scale of the Individual. Archer and Lahire contra Bourdieu. Frédéric Vandenberghe; 4. Bourdieu and international social science. Derek Robbins; Part II:Case-studies of the international deployment of Bourdieu’s thought; 5. Bourdieu inside Europe. The European circulation of Bourdieu’s ideas.  Marco Santoro and Andrea Gallelli; 6. The principle of differentiation in Japanese society and international knowledge transfer between Bourdieu and Japan. Shinichi Aizawa and Naoki Iso; 7. Worlds Within And Beyond Words: Bourdieu And The Limits Of Theory. Sheena Jain; 8. Social transformation and cultural reproduction: a bourdieusian analysis of post-reform China. Yang Yang and Xuanyang Gao; 9. Bourdieu’s use and reception: A Latin American perspective on the problems of conceptual transfer. MariaLuisa Mendez; Notes on contributors; Author index; Subject index.