Description
Book Synopsisaeo This volume is an outstanding collection of critical essays on Bourdieua s work, it provides the best critical appraisal of Bourdieu which is currently available. aeo The contributors are well known and well established authors. aeo The volume also includes a new essay by Bourdieu in which he replies to his critics.
Table of ContentsIntroduction.
1. Culture and the Concept of Culture in a Theory of Practice: Edward Lipuma.
2. Can There be a Science of Existential Structure and Social Meaning?: Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow.
3. To Follow a Rule.... : Charles Taylor.
4. Habitus, Field, and Capital: The Question of Historical Specificity: Craig Calhoun.
5. Aspects of Structural and Processual Theories of Knowledge: Aaron Cicourel.
6. Determination and Contradiction: An Appreciation and Critique of the Work of Pierre Bourdieu on Language and Education: Jim Collins.
7. Notes on Semantics in Linguistic Practice: Bill Hanks.
8. Gender and Symbolic Violence: Female Oppression in the Light of Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Social Practice: Beate Krais.
9. Bourdieu, the Cultural Arbitary and Television: Nicholas Garnham.
10. Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Economy, and Social Change: Scott Lash.
11. Social Theory as Habitus: Rogers Brubaker.
12. Bourdieu in America: Notes on the Transatlantic Importation of Social Theory: Loic Wacquant.
Concluding Remarks: Pierre Bourdieu.
