Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher and champion of the anti-globalisation movement, whose work spanned a broad range of subjects from ethnography to art, literature, education, language, cultural tastes, and television [1]. Bourdieu’s most significant work on cultural production is available in two books: The Field of Cultural Production (1993) and The Rules of Art (1996). Bourdieu builds his theory of cultural production using his own characteristic theoretical vocabulary of habitus, capital and field.

Works

Books

• Sociologie de l'Algérie, 1958; rev.ed., 1961.
  • The Algerians, trans. Allan Ross, Beacon Press, 1962. (in English)

• with Alain Darbel, Jean-Paul Rivet, and Claude Seibel, Travail et travailleurs en Algérie, 1963.

• with Abdelmalek Sayad, Le déracinement. La crise de l'agriculture traditionelle en Algérie, 1964.

• with Jean-Claude Passeron, Les hérities, 1964.
  • The Inheritors: French Students and Their Relation to Culture, trans. Richard Nice, 1979. (in English)

• Un art moyen. Essais sur les usages sociaux de la photographie, 1965.
  • Photography: A Middle-brow Art, trans. Shaun Whiteside, 1990. (in English)

• with Jean-Claude Passeron, La reproduction. Elèments pour une théorie du système d'enseignement, Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1970.
  • Reproduction in Education, Society, and Culture, trans. Richard Nice. (in English)
  • La reproduccion. Elementos para una teoría del sistema de enseñanza, trans. J. Melendres and M. Subirats, Barcelona: Editorial Laia, S.A., 1979; Mexico: Distribuciones Fontamara, S.A., 1995; 2nd edition, 1996. (in Spanish)

• Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique, précéde de trois études d'ethnologie kabyle, Geneva: Droz, 1972.
  • Outline of a Theory of Practice, Cambridge University Press, trans. Richard Nice, 1977. (in English)

• Algérie 60: structures économiqes et structures temporelles, 1977.
  • Algeria 1960: The Disenchantment of the World; The Sense of Honour; The Kabyle House, or, the World Reversed, trans. Richard Nice, Cambridge University Press, 1979. (in English)

• La distinction: Critique sociale du jugement de goût, Paris: Minuit, 1979.
  • Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, trans. Richard Nice, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. (in English)

• Le sens pratique, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1980.
  • The Logic of Practice, trans. Richard Nice, Polity Press, 1990. (in English)
  • El sentido práctico, trans. Ariel Dilon, Buenos Aires : Siglo XXI Editores, 2007, PDF(in Spanish)

• Questions de sociologie, 1980.
  • Sociology in Question, Sage, 1993. (in English)

• Ce que parler veut dire. L'économie des échanges linguistiques, 1982.
  • Language and Symbolic Power, trans. G. Raymond and M. Adamson, Polity Press, 1991. (in English)

• Homo academicus, Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1984.
  • Homo Academicus, trans. Peter Collier, Polity Press, 1988; Stanford University Press, 1988. (in English)
  • Homo academicus, trans. Ariel Dilon, Buenos Aires : Siglo XXI Editores, 2008, PDF. (in Spanish)

• La Sociologie de Bourdieu. Textes choisis et commentés, eds. Alain Accardo and Philippe Corcuff, 1986.

• Choses dites, 1987.
  • In Other Words: Essays toward a Reflective Sociology, trans. Matthew Adamson, 1990. (in English)

• L'ontologie politique de Martin Heidegger, 1988.
  • The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger, trans. P. Collier, 1991. (in English)

• La Noblesse d'état. Grandes écoles et esprit de corps, 1989.
  • The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power, trans. Lauretta Clough, 1996. (in English)

• with Loïc Wacquant, Réponses pour une anthropologie réflexive, Paris: Seuil, 1992.
  • An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, University of Chicago Press, 1992. (in English)

• Les régles de l'art: Genèse et structure du champ littéraire, 1992.
  • Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, trans. S. Emanuel, 1996. (in English)

• The Field of Cultural Production. Essays on Art and Literature, ed. Randall Johnson, 1993. (in English)

• with Hans Haacke, Libre-Échange, 1994.
  • Free Exchange, Polity Press with Blackwell, 1995, 144 pp. (in English)

• Raisons pratiques. Sur la théorie de l'action, 1994.
  • Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, Stanford University Press, 1998. (in English)

• Sur la télévision; suivi de l'emprise du journalisme, Liber-Raisons d'Agir, 1996.
  • On Television, trans. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, New Press, 1998. (in English)

• Méditations pascaliennes. Éléments pur une philosophie négative, 1997.
  • Pascalian Meditations, trans. Richard Nice, 2000. (in English)

• Contre-feux. Propos pour servir à la résistance contre l'invasion néo-libérale, Liber-Raisons d'Agir, 1998.
  • Acts of Resistance: Against the New Myths of our Time, trans. Richard Nice, Polity Press and New Press, 1998. (in English)

• La domination masculine, 1998.
  • Masculine Domination, trans. Richard Nice, Polity Press, 2001. (in English)

• Les structures sociales de l'economie, Paris: Seuil, 2000.
  • Las estructuras sociales de la economia, trans. Horacio Pons, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Manatial SRL, 2001; 2002. (in Spanish)

Bibliographies

• On French Wikipedia
• Sélection bibliographique, 1993-2000, compiled by Bibliothèque nationale de France, April 2012.

Literature

Monographs

• Patrice Bonnewitz, Premières leçons sur La sociologie de Pierre Bourdieu, Paris: PUF, 1998; 2nd ed., 2002.
• Pierre Mounier, Pierre Bourdieu, une introduction, Agora, 2001.
• Gad Yair, Pierre Bourdieu: the Last Musketeer of the French Revolution, 2009. (in English)
• John F. Myles, Bourdieu, Language and the Media, 2010. (in English)
• Philip S. Gorski (ed.), Bourdieu and Historical Analysis, 2013. (in English)

Articles

• Juan José Martínez-Sierra, "Using Bourdieu to Approach the Concept of Television as an Instrument of Social Reproduction in the U.S. The Paradox of The Simpsons", AS/SA, vol. 8, n. 18, 2006: 17-27.

Documentary film

• La sociologie est un sport de combat, documentary, dir. Pierre Charles, 146 min, 2001.

Links

• Bourdieu at Wikipedia