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An invitation to reflexive sociology / Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc J.D. Wacquant.
- Title
- An invitation to reflexive sociology / Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc J.D. Wacquant.
- Author
- Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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- Additional Authors
- Wacquant, Loïc J. D.
- Description
- xiv, 332 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the influence of his work, no single introduction to his wide-ranging oeuvre is available. This book, intended for an English-speaking audience, offers a systematic and accessible overview, providing interpretive keys to the internal logic of Bourdieu's work by explicating thematic and methodological principles underlying his work. The structure of Bourdieu's theory of knowledge, practice, and society is first dissected by Loic Wacquant he then collaborates with Bourdieu in a dialogue in which they discuss central concepts of Bourdieu's work, confront the main objections and criticisms his work has met, and outline Bourdieu's views of the relation of sociology to philosophy, economics, history, and politics. The final section captures Bourdieu in action in the seminar room as he addresses the topic of how to practice the craft of reflexive sociology. Throughout, they stress Bourdieu's emphasis on reflexivity -- his inclusion of a theory of intellectual practice as an integral component of a theory of society -- and on method -- particularly his manner of posing problems that permits a transfer of knowledge from one area of inquiry into another. -- Publisher description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bibliographie.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-312) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Toward a social praxeology : the structure and logic of Bourdieu's sociology / Loïc J.D. Wacquant -- The purpose of reflexive sociology (the Chicago workshop) / Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc J.D. Wacquant -- The practice of reflexive sociolgy (the Paris workshop) / Pierre Bourdieu.
- ISBN
- 0226067408 (alk. paper)
- 0226067416 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^91043725^
- OCLC
- 24954068
- SCSB-11244579
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library