Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives

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Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPuma, Moishe Postone
University of Chicago Press, 15.08.1993 - 288 Seiten
Long a dominant figure in the French human sciences, Pierre Bourdieu has become internationally influential in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies. A major figure in the development of "practice" as an organizing concept in social research, Bourdieu has emerged as the foremost advocate of reflexive social science; his work combines an astonishing range of empirical work with highly sophisticated theory.

American reception of his works, however, has lacked a full understanding of their place within the broad context of French human science. His individual works separated by distinct boundaries between social science fields in American academia, Bourdieu's cohesive thought has come to this country in fragments.

Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives provides a unified and balanced appraisal of Bourdieu's varied works by both proponents and skeptics. The essays are written from the varied viewpoints of cultural anthropology, ethnomethodology and other varieties of sociology, existential and Wittgensteinian philosophies, linguistics, media studies, and feminism. They work around three main themes: Bourdieu's effort to transcend gaps between practical knowledge and universal structures, his central concept of "reflexivity," and the relations between social structure, systems of classification, and language.

Ultimately, the contributors raise a variety of crucial theoretical questions and address problems that are important not only to understanding Bourdieu but to advancing empirical work of the kind he has pioneered. In an essay written especially for this volume, Bourdieu describes his own "mode of intellectual production" and the reasons he sees for its common misunderstanding.

The contributors are Hubert Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow, Charles Taylor, Aaron Cicourel, James Collins, William Hanks, Beate Krais, Nicholas Garnham, Scott Lash, Roger Brubaker, and Loic Wacquant, and the editors.
 

Inhalt

Bourdieu and Social Theory
1
1 Culture and the Concept of Culture in a Theory of Practice
14
2 Can there be a Science of Existential Structure and Social Meaning?
35
3 To Follow a Rule
45
The Question of Historical Specificity
61
5 Aspects of Structural and Processual Theories of Knowledge
89
An Appreciation and Critique of the Work of Pierre Bourdieu on Language and Education
116
7 Notes on Semantics in Linguistic Practice
139
9 Bourdieu the Cultural Arbitrary and Television
178
Cultural Economy and Social Change
193
11 Social Theory as Habitus
212
Notes on the Transatlantic Importation of Social Theory
235
For a Sociogenetic Understanding of Intellectual Works
263
Bourdieu Bibliography
276
Index of Names
281
General Index
284

Female Oppression in the Light of Pierre Bourdieus
156

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