Most of Pierre Bourdieu's work describes struggles over symbolic capital and hierarchies
among the economic and cultural elite. However, his theories and concepts are not …

The work of Bourdieu has increasingly gained interest in criminology. His theoretical
framework is rich and arguably the most sophisticated approach to social inequality and …

Bourdieu's key conceptual tools, including the forms of capital and habitus, have recently
come to be deployed with greater frequency in criminological research. Less attention has …

A background in 'ordinary'crime, violence and drug use seems to characterize many
European individuals recently involved in ISIS-related jihadi violence. With its long tradition …

At the time of his death in January 2002, Pierre Bourdieu was perhaps the most prominent
sociologist in the world (see Calhoun and Wacquant 2002). As the author of numerous …

Pierre Bourdieu's recasting of the question of class exemplifies the major features of his
sociology and the way he extends, melds, and mends classical views into a distinctive …

The most important concept introduced in this book is 'street capital'. Street capital is inspired
by Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist. Street capital is knowledge, skills and objects …

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in
the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu …

In this short but dense piece, written for a special issue of the journal L'Arc devoted to the
medieval historian Georges Duby (whose sprawling oeuvre Bourdieu admired and drew on …

My paper returns to a persistent theme in my lifework, which is not original but derived from a
tradition of radical social science and critical theory: a concern with popular consent …