PIERRE BOURDIEU

“ Ce qui circule entre les chercheurs et les non-spécialistes, ou même entre une science et les spécialistes des autres sciences, ce sont, au mieux, les résultats, mais jamais les opérations. On n’entre jamais dans les cuisines de la science. ” Ce sont ces secrets de métier, ces recettes de fabrication, ces tours de main, que Pierre Bourdieu ten...

Examines the ways in which power is bolstered and extended by means of symbols. The book considers the importance of ritual in confirming institutions, looks at ways in which organs of power attempt to control discourse and explores the ways in which ideology can supplant reality.

Outline of a theory of practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be unde...