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Pierre Bourdieu ( French: [buʁdjø]; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. [4] [5] Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields (e.g. anthropology, media and cultural ...
14 Jun 2024 · Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist who was a public intellectual in the tradition of Emile Zola and Jean-Paul Sartre. Bourdieu’s concept of habitus (socially acquired dispositions) was influential in recent postmodernist humanities and social sciences. His best-known work was Distinction (1979).
13 Feb 2024 · French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “habitus” explains how individuals self-regulate their own behavior to fit social expectations.
17 Mac 2019 · Pierre Bourdieu was a renowned sociologist and public intellectual who made significant contributions to general sociological theory, theorizing the link between education and culture, and research into the intersections of taste, class, and education.
8 Apr 2022 · Pierre Bourdieu was arguably the most important social theorist of the twentieth century. A French sociologist, he produced during his lifetime scores of empirical studies that laid the foundation for a rich theoretical program.
Pierre Bourdieu developed the concept of cultural capital in the late 1960s when studying the French educational system and noticing that middle-class students tended to persist through school, while working-class students had higher drop out rates.
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