Can one speak dispassionately today about Pierre Bourdieu? The extraordinary success of his work and its agonistic dimension makes things quite difficult. Jean-Louis Fabiani’s book is an attempt to apply Bourdieu’s analytical tools to his own work as he invited us in his reflexive sociology. Testing their limitations and their potential ambiguity allows the author to shed new l...(展开全部)

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 empirical investigations into colonial power in Algeria, the educational system in France, the forms of state power, and the history of artistic and scientific fields-among many other topics. Despite the d...(展开全部)

戴维·斯沃茨(David Swartz，1945-)，1984年毕业于波士顿大学，获博士学位。曾在巴黎大学、卫斯理大学(Wesleyan University)以及耶鲁大学教授和研究社会学和社会理论。现为波士顿大学社会学系教授。近来的研究兴趣集中在知识分子研究、政治学研究、精英和社会分层研究等方面。

戴维·斯沃茨(David Swartz，1945-)，1984年毕业于波士顿大学，获博士学位。曾在巴黎大学、卫斯理大学(Wesleyan University)以及耶鲁大学教授和研究社会学和社会理论。现为波士顿大学社会学系教授。近来的研究兴趣集中在知识分子研究、政治学研究、精英和社会分层研究等方面。

Jean-Louis Fabiani (born May 30, 1951) is a French sociologist, professor of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, and the director of studies at the Centre d'études sociologiques et politiques Raymond Aron at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Pierre Bourdieu is a prominent social theorist and researcher in contemporary sociology. In this critical examination of his oeuvre David Swartz focuses on a central theme in Bourdieu's work - the complex relationship between culture and power, and explains that sociology for Bourdieu is a mode of political intervention. Swartz clarifies Bourdieu's difficult concepts, noting wh...(展开全部)

Pierre Bourdieu is a prominent social theorist and researcher in contemporary sociology. In this critical examination of his oeuvre David Swartz focuses on a central theme in Bourdieu's work - the complex relationship between culture and power, and explains that sociology for Bourdieu is a mode of political intervention. Swartz clarifies Bourdieu's difficult concepts, noting wh...(展开全部)

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 that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that symbolic power - the power to dominate - is solely symbolic. He emphasized that sy...(展开全部)