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 …

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 …

AH: Let me first of all try to give a brief overview of the themes we would like to cover and to
indicate the perspective from which weshall pose our questions. For anyone interested in a …

English, his theoretical work is only just beginning to make an impact." Bourdieu's most wide-
ranging and no doubt most important investigation to date, La Distinction (1979), is only now …

I am most grateful to the editors of the British Journal of Sociology for putting together such
an impressive set of review papers about my book. I am very honoured by the very …

Pierre Bourdieu both brilliantly illustrated and bluntly belied his distinctive social theories
with a brimful life that, through unlikely twists and long-winding turns, was anchored by an …

An exceptionally productive and inventive thinker, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has,
over the past three decades, produced one of the most ambitious and fertile bodies of …

Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to
stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than …

This paper aims to balance the conceptual reception of Bourdieu's sociology in the United
States through a conceptual re‐examination of the concept of Habitus. I retrace the …

One of the most fertile and influential voices in recent French social th has been that of
Pierre Bourdieu. A sociologist of unusually broad intel tual formation, Bourdieu has …