A comparative perspective of pre-theoretical consciousness is presented here. By comparing Gramsci’s common sense (from the interwar period; 1999) with Bourdieu’s habitus (1977) and Taylor’s social ...

Outgrowth of a conference held at the Center for Psychosocial Studies in Chicago, between 31 March and 2 April, 1989. Introduction : Bourdieu and social theory / Moishe Postone, Edward LiPuma, and ...

What can we learn from Pierre Bourdieu’s critique of Marxism? Why did the influential French sociologist reject Marx’s emphasis on labor and class struggle? Michael Burawoy lays out Bourdieu’s famous ...

Despite Searle's claim of theoretical proximity between his concept of the Background and Bourdieu's concept of the habitus, there is at least one substantial difference in the respective ways in ...

following a struggle with cancer. A professor at the Collège de France, Mr. Bourdieu was among the leading sociologists of his generation. His models of “habitus” and “cultural capital” sought to ...

This event is hosted by the British Sociological Association (BSA). This is a BSA Bourdieu Study Group event. Venue – Details available upon event registration. In his now classic text, Outline of a ...

En libros como Le sens pratique, Pierre Bourdieu sustenta su teoría del habitus con ejemplos de una región argelina, Cabilia. En ellos, Cabilla aparece como una sociedad tradicional, pero en textos ...

Does the fact that children go to different schools, and that some go to college, while others attend university, have anything to do with the ostensibly irremediable class structure of societies? One ...