...Drawing on Bourdieu’s practice theory, style is taken as part of embodied practices that catalyze collective memories and community identity. These stylistic practices include both the production and consumption of style(s) as separate but intersecting spheres of practice, and thus act...

... theory, and to the approach to language and culture found in Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology. It introduces a linguistic anthropological way of understanding language to readers of literature and explores the consequences of this understanding for how we think about novelistic form and about the practice...

... a misinterpretation of how Bourdieu thinks about the standards upon which teachers evaluate their students’ potential. Social fields, or the shared expectations of those working in educational institutions, have a set of rules that map to ideal sets of habits and skills expected of students. Although Bourdieu’s work...

...This chapter discusses humanitarian relief NGOs as one of the key mediating forces between Western audiences and distant suffering. It introduces the role fields of practice can play in governance and, building on the work of Pierre Bourdieu distinguishes the field of humanitarian relief...

... for a specific type of symbolic capital: humanitarian authority. While some field approaches following the work of Bourdieu posit a two-fold division between economic and cultural capital, this chapter maps organizations along the dimensions of field-specific capital, on the one hand, and different kinds...

...What is true of Richard Rorty is true of all other intellectuals: they are persons no less impinged upon by social mechanisms and processes than any other. This chapter outlines the major theoretical frameworks currently available to sociologists of ideas—those of Pierre Bourdieu and Randall...

... of a pragmatist identity in the 1970s. The theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Randall Collins shed light on the decisions Rorty made at several of these junctures. For example, Bourdieu's focus on the reproduction of social and cultural capital helps explain Rorty's early educational trajectory, while the emphasis...

...This chapter focuses on practice theory and on the writings of Pierre Bourdieu, who self-consciously intervened in an effort to overcome the debate between Sartre and Lévi-Strauss: How does structure relate to individual decision making? In the case of the Catalina interviews (interviews of young...

... equality exclusion participation Pitkin Hanna realist theory representation Schumpeter Joseph A citizen control decision making dichotomy division of political labor governance influence states Bourdieu Pierre French Revolution inclusion politicization competence competition Gaxiem...

... the perspective of Power in Modernity, and its theory of rector, actor, and other. This provides a counterpoint to the now-standard ways of imagining the intersection of culture and power associated with Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault. Butler Judith Kafka Franz performativity power power relations...

.... Armory Show art fairs collectors aesthetic choices of Mallin Joel Mallin Sherry James Cohan Gallery Zhen Xu art history ARTnews magazine taste gallery Green Megan Onassis Jackie Kennedy advisers art Maxwell Douglas New Art Dealers Alliance Pettit Lowell status signals Bourdieu Pierre...

... baraka blessing Berlant Lauren billboards “cruel optimism” Berlant Ghosn Carlos Lévy Bruhl Lucien migrant s “primitive mentality” Lévy Bruhl religiosity migration and “We Are All Carlos Ghosn” billboard Bourdieu Pierre illusio Bourdieu meaning in life purpose in life transhistorical destiny...

... are more complex and constrained than commonly assumed. The analysis also identifies a career trajectory established by Asian Americans transitioning from large firms to inside counsel positions, which have gained power and prestige over recent years. Drawing on the field sociology of Pierre Bourdieu...

... may have a transformative impact on social structures and thereby contribute to achieving more equal social relations, as opposed to merely mitigating distributive imbalances. affirmative action caste Fraser Nancy India justice Bourdieu Pierre relationality Tilly Charles Germany Harvard...

... the direction of sociology rather than literary cultural studies. This chapter analyzes the general sociology of culture-based class distinctions proposed by Pierre Bourdieu as well as the more specific sociology of the New Class. construction cultural cultural criticism family Foucault Michel identity...

...This chapter investigates the ways the topics of same-sex and misfit sexualities impacted the structures of the French literary field. The chapter proceeds by adapting some of the standard ways of mobilizing Bourdieu’s thinking about the autonomous and heteronomous poles of a field. It proposes...

..., but many of them including people from disparate fields. In some conversations, people are describing their findings, in others, people are explaining their perspectives, and in some people are in heated debate. equilibrium Gestalt Köhler Wolfgang Sanskrit Boudon Raymond Bourdieu Pierre Plato...

...Engaging with the work of Fredric Jameson, Fernand Braudel, Pierre Bourdieu, and Yuri Tynianov, the Introduction outlines the book's major concerns and justifies methodological choices and choices of corpus. It begins to justify the use of "medial reading" and the approach to the corpus from...

... Bourdieu and on the Strong Program in Cultural Sociology, the introduction argues that the humanitarian NGO sector achieved its prominent international status through a set of cultural and religious processes occurring in the second half of the nineteenth-century. Ethiopia Haiti humanitarian space...

... is presented, building from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Tara Yosso on cultural capital and community cultural wealth, respectively. Silver acknowledges that some readers may be surprised to see the theories of Bourdieu and Yosso employed side by side, given that many perceive their work to be part...