Pierre Bourdieu was an acclaimed French sociologist whose work employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines: from philosophy and literary theory to sociology and anthropology. He is best known for his book "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste", in which he tried to connect aesthetic judgments to positions in social space. The most notable aspect of Bourdieu's theory is the development of methodologies, … Wikipedia
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Pierre Bourdieu, who has died from cancer at 71, was, for many, the leading intellectual of present-day France. www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,640396,00.html
(page non-officielle) Pierre Carles La sociologie est un sport de combat -Pierre Bourdieu- de Pierre Carles 2h26, France 2001. www.homme-moderne.org/images/films/pcarles/socio/index.html
.../April 2001 NewLiberalSpeak Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant Issue: 105 - January/February 2001 Dictators and Democrats in Latin America: Madeleine Davis Issue: 104 - November/December 2000 ... www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2187&...
Bourdieu himself argued that scholars and writers could and should bring their specialized knowledge to bear responsibly and seriously on social and political issues, something he suspected couldn't be done on a talk show. www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020218&s=pollitt