ISBN:
9780761960447
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (185 p)
Paralleltitel:
Print version Bourdieu and Culture
DDC:
306.092
Schlagwort(e):
Bourdieu, Pierre
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
An accessible and readable introduction to Bourdieu's work, this book places him in intellectual and historical context, and shows how Bourdieu is best understood as a cultural analyst. It traces his development from his early work on education to his relationship to cultural sociology and cultural studies. The book also gives detailed examples, drawn from Bourdieu's own work, to show how he makes sense of contemporary culture. Robbins guides the reader authoritatively through Bourdieu's wide-ranging body of theoretical and analytical work and offers a framework within which the most rece
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I - The Career; Chapter 1 - An Insider/Outsider Frenchman; Part II - The Concepts; Chapter 2 - The Socio-Genesis of the Thinking Instruments; Chapter 3 - Production, Reception and Reproduction; Part III - The Case Studies; Chapter 4 - Flaubert and the Social Ambivalence of Literary Invention; Chapter 5 - Courrèges, the Fashion System and Anti-Semiology; Chapter 6 - Manet, the Musée D'Orsay, and the Installation of Art; Part IV - The Criticisms; Chapter 7 - Evaluating Fragmented Responses
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Chapter 8 - Meta-Criticism: Charting Interminable TerritoryChapter 9 - Conclusion: Commending the Bourdieu Paradigm: The Sociologist as Conceptual; Bibliography; Index;
Anmerkung:
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