About the Author

Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Stanford University Press has published eleven other books by Bourdieu, most recently The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Societies (1999).

Reviews

"This book will surely endure a a major classic of late twentieth-century social theory."_ - Philosophy in Review "This latest book by France's preeminent sociologist provides a compact presentation of his concerns, methods, and leading concepts... The book will be an excellent introduction to Bourdieu's fruitful thought for philosophers and social theorists." - Ethics