ABSTRACT
As Frédéric Lebaron insists, Bourdieu’s work, as well as being vast, is multi-dimensional. Although one man’s multi-dimensionality may be another woman’s ambivalence, people are able to take many different elements from his work, fashion them into novel configurations and generate new research questions. Certainly, multi-dimensionality produces openness to different lines of interpretation and hence, disputation. More than that of most other major contributors to sociological theory, his work lends itself to partial appropriation and empirical application. These are features which make Bourdieu constantly useful in the present, at a time when, only a few years after his death, the overall value of a multitude of works with a complex architecture is still neither fully known nor appreciated beyond the circles of his closest collaborators and most vituperative critics.
