228 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Bourdieu's work is formidable-the journey is tough. Follow this French foreign legion-take an apple, take a hanky-but take this book. Peter Beilharz , Professor of Sociology , La Trobe University Pierre Bourdieu's work on the sociology of culture and language, on practical reason, on education, on citizenship and the cultures of poverty, and on a range of other topics is now coming to be seen... Read more
1. Contexts and approaches

2. Cultural field and the habitus

3. Theorising practice

4. Bourdieu's sociology

5. Government and bureaucracy

6. Bourdieu andsecondary schools

7. Bourdieu and higher education

8. The field of cultural production

9. Art and artists

10. Journalism and television

Bibliography

Biography

Jen Webb is Program Director of Writing in the School of Creative Communication and Culture Studies at the University of Canberra. Tony Schirato is co-author of Communication and Cultural Literacy and Asia: Cultural politics in the global age. Geoff Danaher teaches in the School of Contemporary Communication at Central Queensland University. They are authors of Understanding Foucault.