Bourdieu, Pierre /
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) rose to become a leading international sociologist of the second half of the 20th century. He originally trained in philosophy and subsequently undertook extensive fieldwork in Algeria, in which he used a number of structural anthropological tools. By combining philosophy...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Bourdieu, Pierre.
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| Summary: | Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) rose to become a leading international sociologist of the second half of the 20th century. He originally trained in philosophy and subsequently undertook extensive fieldwork in Algeria, in which he used a number of structural anthropological tools. By combining philosophy and anthropology, he developed his own distinct version of sociology through a series of early studies on education and culture in the 1960s, as well as his studies in Algeria (see Grenfell, 2004). In fact, he often employed the word ethnology with reference to his own work, and it may be that it is better to consider him as a social philosopher than a sociologist. He is sometimes seen as essentially a theorist, even though he spent a good deal of his work ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529745665 1529745667 9781526421036 1526421038 |