| Pierre Bourdieu Four-Volume Set Edition Contributor(s): Robbins, Derek (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0761964657 ISBN-13: 9780761964650 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $1128.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001272094 |
| Series: Sage Masters in Modern Social Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (7.31 lbs) 1704 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Derek Robbins provides the first complete assessment of the sociological achievements of one of the key European sociologists of the 20th century. Bourdieu has made decisive contributions to theory, method and professional practice. All are discussed here, providing an unparalleled distillation of Bourdieu′s work. The collection: offers a systematic understanding and evaluation of Bourdieu′s sociology; demonstrates the relation of Bourdieu to wider research traditions in the social sciences; faithfully represents Bourdieu′s multidisciplinarianism; explains why Bourdieu is a key 20th century sociologist. The collection is edited by one of Europe′s leading commentators on Bourdieu. The four volumes stand as the benchmark w |
Contributor Bio(s): Robbins, Derek: - Derek Robbins is Professor of International Social Theory in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of East London. He is the author of The Work of Pierre Bourdieu (1991) and of Bourdieu and Culture (2000); the editor of the 4-volume collection of articles on Bourdieu in the Sage Masters of Contemporary Social Thought series (2000) and of a 3-volume collection of articles on Lyotard in the same series (2004). His On Bourdieu, Education and Society was published by Bardwell Press in July, 2006, and he was the editor of the Special issue of Theory, Culture and Society on Bourdieu which was published as 23 (6) in November, 2006. In 2007-8 he was in receipt of an ESRC award to study the work of Jean-Claude Passeron, and he has written an introduction to a translation of Passeron's Le raisonnement sociologique which will be published in 2011 by Bardwell Press, Oxford, as Sociological Reasoning. As Directeur associé in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Marseille in 2009-10 he gave courses on the comparative epistemology of the social sciences, and he is currently exploring the influence of Husserl on 20th Century French social theory, particularly in relation to the development of the thought of Lyotard and Bourdieu. |