ABSTRACT
The co-editors of this volume have asked me to discuss the influence of Pierre Bourdieu on my intellectual trajectory, in an autobiographical mode. I have been quite reluctant to do so because writing such a piece requires a degree of reflexivity that I may have yet to achieve. Moreover, as a mid-career sociologist (or at least one who recently turned 50), I also hesitate to approach my own work as an object of commentary for fear of hubris. I have taken on the challenge, if only to clarify for myself the last 25 years.
