After Bourdieu

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Drawing inspiration from Bourdieu

   1. Introduction: Drawing inspiration from Bourdieu

      • David L. Swartz, Vera L. Zolberg

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3. Intellectual Origins & Orientations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. In memoriam: Pierre Bourdieu 1930–2002

      • David L. Swartz

      Pages 17-23

   3. Rethinking classical theory

      • Rogers Brubaker

      Pages 25-64

   4. Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of religion: A central and peripheral concern

      • Erwam Dianteill

      Pages 65-85

   5. Pierre Bourdieu: Economic models against economism

      • Frédéric Lebaron

      Pages 87-101

4. Culture and Fields

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Cultural capital in educational research: A critical assessment

      • Annette Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger

      Pages 105-144

   3. Forms of politicization in the French literary field

      • Giseèle Sapiro

      Pages 145-164

   4. Media meta-capital: Extending the range of Bourdieu’s field theory

      • Nick Couldry

      Pages 165-189

5. Economics as a Cultural and Social Domain

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. Flesh and the free market: (On taking Bourdieu to the options exchange)

      • Richard Widick

      Pages 193-237

   3. On the wealth of nations: Bourdieuconomics and social capital

      • Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

      Pages 239-263

6. Culture and Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 265-265

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   2. Haunted by the specter of communism: Collective identity and resource mobilization in the demise of the Workers Alliance of America

      • Chad Alan Goldberg

      Pages 267-315

   3. Bourdieu’s political sociology and the politics of European integration

      • Niilo Kauppi

      Pages 317-331

   4. From critical sociology to public intellectual: Pierre Bourdieu & politics

      • David L. Swartz

      Pages 333-364

7. Back Matter

   Pages 365-371

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critical evaluations of his work, notably papers by Rodney Benson, 4 Rogers Brubaker, Nick Crossley, and John Myles. Indeed, it is the 1985 article by Rogers Brubaker that can truly be said to have served as one of the best introductions to Bourdieu’s thought for the American social scienti?c public. It is for this reason that we include it in the present collection. Intellectual origins & orientations We begin by providing an overview of Bourdieu’s life as a scholar and a public intellectual. The numerous obituaries and memorial tributes that have appeared following Bourdieu’s untimely death have revealed something of his life and career, but few have stressed the intersection of his social origins, career trajectory, and public intellectual life with the changing political and social context of France. This is precisely what David Swartz’s “In memoriam” attempts to accomplish. In it he emphasizes the coincidence of Bourdieu’s young and later adulthood with the period of decolonization, the May 1968 French university crisis, the opening up of France to privatization of many domains previously entrusted to the state (l’état providence), and, most threatening to post-World War II reforms, the emergence of globalization as the hegemonic structure of the 21st century. An orienting theme throughout Bourdieu’s work warns against the partial and fractured views of social reality generated by the fundamental subject/object dichotomy that has plagued social science from its very beginning.

• Bourdieu
• Habitus
• Integration
• Nation
• Pierre Bourdieu
• education
• politics
• religion
• social theory
• sociology

• Sociology Department, Boston University, USA

  David L. Swartz

• Sociology Department, New School for Social Research, USA

  Vera L. Zolberg

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