Pierre Bourdieu was the most influential sociologist of the late 20th century. The framework
he developed continues to inspire countless researchers across the globe and provokes …

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social thinkers of the past half-century,
known for both his theoretical and methodological contributions and his wide-ranging …

This chapter highlights the idea that analytical sociology is a complex and heterogeneous
intellectual movement whose content and boundaries are still under development and …

Bernard Lahire's critique of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology aims to establish a 'dispositionalist-
contextualist'vision of human agency capable of fully sociologising biography and …

This article aims to develop enhanced conceptions of the motivational drives that may be
imperilled by their encounter with new forms of governance in higher education. Of particular …

The 'new'sociology of culture has provided us with valuable insights regarding the
performative, corporeal, and unpredictable dimensions of art tasting, which the 'old', critical …

Habitus has been an attractive concept for works examining body-centric practices. This
article draws on interviews and 18 months of ethnographic research with high-risk climbers …

Although attempts to complement the concept of reflexivity with social embeddedness have
been made by many sociologists, theoretical tools for coming to grips with 'temporally …

This paper proposes a way of integrating the concepts of habitus and mood. The purpose of
this conceptual move is to enrich Pierre Bourdieu's treatment of habitus with a better …

The papers collected in this special issue of the Journal of Sociology seek both to develop a
sense of the cumulative impact of Bourdieu's work on Australasian ('antipodean') debates …