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Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy
Settling Accounts and Developing Alternatives
Series: CRESC
Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars. This edited collection offers sustained critical engagement, substantiated by new empirical...
Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Cultural Consumption, Classification and Power
When social scientists in the 1970s began to identify the positive and constructive role of cultural practices in the operation of power, Pierre Bourdieu advanced a highly influential and subsequently controversial account. Most notably in Distinction, he charted the connections between cultural...
Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge
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Culture, Class, Distinction
Series: CRESC
Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu’s...
Published August 16th 2009 by Routledge
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Ordinary Consumption
Series: Studies in Consumption and Markets
Ordinary Consumption promotes a distinctive approach to the understanding of the central practices of consumer society, a book with a controversial message, it will be a source of debate about the appropriate agenda for reserach....
Published August 1st 2001 by Routledge