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Pierre Bourdieu

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Born: July 31 1930

Died: 2222 01 20022002

Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location, and symbolic violence to reveal the dynamics of power relations in social life. His work emphasized the role of practice and embodiment or forms in social dynamics and worldview construction, often in opposition to universalized Western philosophical traditions. He built upon the theories of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Georges Canguilhem, Karl Marx, Gaston Bachelard, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Erwin Panofsky, and Marcel Mauss. A notable influence on Bourdieu was Blaise Pascal, after whom Bourdieu titled his Pascalian Meditations.

Bourdieu rejected the idea of the intellectual "prophet", or the "total intellectual", as embodied by Sartre. His best known book is Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, in which he argues that judgments of taste are related to social position. His argument is put forward by an original combination of social theory and data from surveys, photographs and interviews, in an attempt to reconcile difficulties such as how to understand the subject within objective structures. In the process, he tried to reconcile the influences of both external social structures and subjective experience on the individual .

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Pierre Bourdieu

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Books from Pierre Bourdieu

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Masculine Domination

Language and Symbolic Power

On Television

The Field of Cultural Production

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco

The Logic of Practice

An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology

Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (Theory, Culture & Society)

The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (Meridian-Crossing Aesthetics)

Les héritiers. Les étudiants et la culture

In Other Words: Essays Toward a Reflexive Sociology

Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market 2

La Misère du monde

Science of Science and Reflexivity

Contre-feux, Tome 1: Propos pour servir à la résistance contre l'invasion Néo-libérale

The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power

العنف الرمزي (بحث في أصول علم الإجتماع التربوي)

L'amour de l'art : Les musées d'art européens et leur public

Os usos sociais da ciência