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Title: Outline of a Theory of Practice by Bourdieu ISBN: 0-521-29164-X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Bourdieu kicks Foucault's ...
Comment: How could anyone put Foucault above Bourdieu? Bourdieu has a rigorous sociology behind his work & provides a real theoretical groundwork to reconcile materialist, interpretive/symbolic and interactionist perspectives. Foucault on the other hand has led anthropologists down a slippery slope of prevarication, vagueness, grandstanding and an obsession with a hollow & impoverished idea of what constitutes a "critical" stance.
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent ideas, a lot of ethnography
Comment: For anyone interested in cultural studies or in ethnology/ anthropology/ sociology, _Outline_ is a must read.
Bourdieu, a teacher of Foucault, has been rated France's 2nd most influential scholar (after Foucault) and for good reason. In _Outline_, Bourdieu provides a well-grounded introduction to his main concepts and gives a great deal of supporting detail to support his interpretations.
At times, his descriptions of the Kabyle culture seem to be far too long for persons who are reading him as a general social theorist. If you do not have a deep-rooted love of sociology or other culturally-immersive social sciences, you might prefer his _Logic of Practice_, which has less ethnology in it, or _Practical Reason_, which has nearly none.
If you are a student of culture, however, you will find these extended examples to be excellent background material and useful illustrations of Bourdieu's concepts.
In terms of writing style, Bourdieu is uneconomical, but the payoff is worth slogging through his difficult prose.
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Title: The Logic of Practice by Pierre Bourdieu ISBN: 0804720118 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice ISBN: 0674212770 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action by Pierre Bourdieu ISBN: 0804733635 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Interpretation of Cultures (Basic Books Classics) by Clifford Geertz ISBN: 0465097197 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1977 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Field of Cultural Production by Pierre Bourdieu, Randal Johnson ISBN: 0231082878 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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