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Bernard Lahire
Boundary Spanner
Bourdieu 1996b
Bourdieu 2000c
Bureaucratic Field
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Civil Society
Concept and Applications
Contemporary Societies
cultural capital dynamics
Cultural Fragmentation
culture
Demarcation
Demarcation Line
differentiated spheres of activity
diplomacy
Draw Back
education
educational sociology
epistemology in social sciences
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Eric Mangez
Factor Cultural Capital
Field Effects
field theory analysis
Forest Gregg
Georges Lienard
Geraldine Andre
Gisele Sapiro
High State Nobility
John Levi Martin
Journalistic Universe
Julien Duval
Literary Field
Loic Wacquant
Louis Pinto
Mathieu Hilgers
methodology
Multiple Correspondence Analysis
neoliberalism
organisational power structures
organizations
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu's Field Theory
Polarized Class Structure
postcolonial field theory applications
public policies
Punitive Containment
Saint John Perse
Social Field Theory
social fields
Social Insecurity
Social Reproduction
Social Science Research
sociological methodology
sociological theory
state formation studies
The State
theory of action
Vice Versa
Vincent Dubois

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138921047
  • Weight: 430g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Jun 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Bourdieu’s theory of social fields is one of his key contributions to social sciences and humanities. However, it has never been subjected to genuine critical examination. This book fills that gap and offers a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the theory. It includes a critical discussion of its methodology and relevance in different subject areas in the social sciences and humanities.

Part I "theoretical investigations" offers a theoretical account of the theory, while also identifying some of its limitations and discussing several strategies to overcome them. Part II "Education, culture and organization" presents the theory at work and highlights its advantages and disadvantages. The focus in Part III devoted to "The State" is on the formation and evolution of the State and public policy in different contexts. The chapters show the usefulness of field theory in describing, explaining and understanding the functioning of the State at different stages in its historical trajectory including its recent redefinition with the advent of the neoliberal age. A last chapter outlines a postcolonial use of the theory of fields.
About
Mathieu Hilgers is Associate Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Anthropology) and has been visiting researcher in many universities, more recently at Harvard University and University of London (Goldsmiths). His research focuses on the relationship between urbanization, capitalism and state building and discusses theory on globalization, social class and neoliberalism. He has published more than 45 papers in scientific journals and books some of which specifically discuss the work of Bourdieu. His most recent book is Une Ethnographie à l’échelle de la ville (Paris, Karthala, 2009) Eric Mangez is Professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium, where he teaches sociological theory, research method, and political sociology. He has published several papers and books that exploit Bourdieu’s field theory. He is author of Réformer les contenus d’enseignement. Une sociologie du curriculum (Paris: PUF, 2008) and co-editor of the World Yearbook of Education 2014.