Ten years after the death of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, we seem a long way from the days when he severely criticised the world of politics and the media. Sociology students the world over ...

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following a struggle with cancer. A professor at the Collège de France, Mr. Bourdieu was among the leading sociologists of his generation. His models of “habitus” and “cultural capital” sought to ...

Translation of: Choses dites, with two added essays. Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most protean intellectual forces in comtemporary French thought. He holds the chair in sociology at the prestigious ...

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PARIS -- Pierre Bourdieu, 71, an internationally renowned French sociologist and philosopher who ventured outside the academic world to join protest movements, died of cancer Jan. 23 at a hospital ...