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Homo Academicus »

Authors: Pierre Bourdieu, Peter Collier
ISBN-13: 9780804717984, ISBN-10: 0804717982
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: August 1990
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France

Book Synopsis

“This necessary, powerful, oblique, and misshapen book is part of a grand statement of the sociological imagination. . . . Bourdieu may now be handed the mantle of first maître à penser in Paris.”—Times Literary Supplement

Preface to the English Edition.
1. A "Book For Burning"?.
2. The Conflict of the Faculties.
3. Types of Capital and Forms of Power.
4. The Defence of the Corps and the Break in Equilibrium.
5. The Critical Moment.
Post-Script: The Categories of Professorial Judgement.
Appendices.
Notes.
Index.