following a struggle with cancer. A professor at the Collège de France, Mr. Bourdieu was among the leading sociologists of his generation. His models of “habitus” and “cultural capital” sought to ...

French philosophy is famous for radical theory in the service of progressive social causes. If Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire propelled this tradition in the 18th century (inspiring the French ...

What can we learn from Pierre Bourdieu’s critique of Marxism? Why did the influential French sociologist reject Marx’s emphasis on labor and class struggle? Michael Burawoy lays out Bourdieu’s famous ...

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Pierre Bourdieu (French: [buʁdjø]; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and renowned public intellectual. Bourdieu's work was primarily concerned ...