Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts

by Michael James Grenfell

Book Overview

The French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is now recognised as one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. In a career of over fifty years, Bourdieu studied a wide range of topics: education, culture, art, politics, economics, literature, law, and philosophy. Throughout these studies, Bourdieu developed a highly specialised series of concepts that he referred to as his "thinking tools", which were used to uncover the workings of contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184465530X
• ISBN13: 9781844655304
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"