Pierre Bourdieu

by Michael James Grenfell

Book Overview

The French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu was a key thinker about education and educational processes in the second half of the twentieth century. He made his name in seminal texts such as The Inheritors and Reproduction in which he analysed academic discourse and showed how differences in cultural capital led to different outcomes for those who passed through school and university. His concepts of Habitus and Field have since been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472518748
• ISBN13: 9781472518743
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"