Pierre Bourdieu (1 Jan 1930 Jahr – 1 Jan 2002 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

About:
- French, agrégation at école Normale Supérieure and taught at the Collége de France
- fieldwork in Algeria during its war for independence
- sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher whose work focused on how social hierarchies are reproduced and how individuals navigate social systems through cultural practices and individual agency

Major Works:
- "Outline of a Theory of Practice" (1972)
- "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste" (1979)
- "The Logic of Practice" (1980)
- "Homo Academicus" (1984)

Contributions:
- practice theory: cultural capital, symbolic capital, symbolic power, symbolic violence, fields, habitus

Critiques:
- overly deterministic with little room for agency or social change
- dense language
- lack of attention to racialized and gendered difference

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