PIERRE BOURDIEU

This work presents a collection of stories from ordinary people expressing the state of society and the kinds of social exclusion, marginalization and impoverishment which are increasingly widespread.

The late Pierre Bourdieu's study challenges the assumptions of orthodox economic theory by showing how the market is effectively constructed by the state. He contends that supply, demand, the market and even the buyer are products of a process of social construction.

Speaking out against the myths of the 1990s, especially those associated with neo-liberalism, this text offers a defence of the public interest. Standing up for the interests of the powerless, this text aims to be a plea for a new internationalism.

One of the most frequently cited texts on the sociology of education, this reissue includes a new introduction reflecting on the work's place in the development of sociology in the areas of education and culture. The book connects cultural phenomena to the structure of society.

Drawing on his own fieldwork as well as a range of ethnographic and anthropological texts, Bourdieu unfolds a theoretical perspective which aims to do justice to the practical logic of everyday action as well as the objective structures within which such action takes place.

No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly...