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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814704603321

Autore

Robbins Derek

Titolo

Bourdieu and culture / / Derek Robbins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 2000

ISBN

1-84860-899-3

0-585-32414-X

1-4462-1854-6

1-283-88150-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 156 p.)

Disciplina

301.092

Soggetti

Sociologists - France

Sociology - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Chapter 8 - Meta-Criticism: Charting Interminable TerritoryChapter 9 - Conclusion: Commending the Bourdieu Paradigm: The Sociologist as Conceptual; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bourdieu and Culture is an accessible and balanced introduction to Bourdieu's work, placing him in an appropriate intellectual and historical context. Robbins argues that Bourdieu is best understood as a cultural analyst.