ABSTRACT

The French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is now recognised as one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. In a career of over fifty years, Bourdieu studied a wide range of topics: education, culture, art, politics, economics, literature, law, and philosophy. Throughout these studies, Bourdieu developed a highly specialised series of concepts that he referred to as his "thinking tools", which were used to uncover the workings of contemporary society.

Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts
highlights his most important concepts and examines them in detail. Each chapter deals with an individual concept and is written to be of immediate use to the student with little or no previous knowledge of Bourdieu. This new edition of the leading text is entirely revised and updated and includes new essays on Methodology, Politics and Social Space.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part |34 pages

Biography, theory and practice

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |15 pages

Biography

part |40 pages

Field theory – beyond subjectivity and objectivity

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter |17 pages

Habitus

chapter |16 pages

Field

part |65 pages

Field mechanisms

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |13 pages

Social class

chapter |16 pages

Capital

chapter |12 pages

Doxa

chapter |20 pages

Hysteresis

part |62 pages

Field conditions

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |18 pages

Interest

chapter |10 pages

Conatus

chapter |14 pages

Reflexivity

part |62 pages

Applications

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |16 pages

Methodology

chapter |21 pages

Social space

chapter |15 pages

Politics

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion