Bourdieu Discussion

Class Meetings  1:00-2:40 at 308 Lewisohn Hall
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Robbie McClintock and Frank Moretti, Instructors

• Office hours:
  • McClintock (322 Thompson Hall): Wednesdays, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and Thursdays, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. (Schedule slot with Neemisha Martin @ 212 678 3344 or nmartin@tc.edu)
  • Moretti (603 Lewisohn Hall): By appointment (Schedule time with Teresa Gonzales @ 212 854 1692 or teresa@columbia.edu)

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) start

• For a brief bio, see A Dictionary of Sociology

Discussion reading

• Pierre Bourdieu . Language and Symbolic Power. (1982) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. Chapters 3-5, 7, 8, 10, and 11; pp. 107-136, 163-202, and 220-251. Electronic Reserve. $29.95.

Supplemental resources

• Richard Jenkins. Pierre Bourdieu. Revised edition. New York: Routledge, 2002

• David Swartz. Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997.

• Craig J. Calhoun, Moishe Postone, and Edward Lipuma, eds. Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.

• Theory and Society, Vol. 32, No. 5/6, 2003. On Bourdieu's work.

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• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• 50 Klassiker der Soziologie

• Search Barnes & Noble for books by and about Pierre Bourdieu.

• Pierre Bourdieu via Google Images.