MSTU5606 28
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Teachers College • Columbia University
Wednesdays, 3:00 to 4:40
Wednesdays, 3:00 to 4:40
308 Lewisohn Hall
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Print Syllabus: Fall • Spring
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MSTU5606/MSTU5607
Communication Theory and Social Thought
- Robbie McClintock, Instructor
- Office hours @ 2nd floor, Gottesman Library
Thursdays 4:00 to 6:00 pm and by appointment
- Office hours @ 2nd floor, Gottesman Library
- Frank Moretti, Instructor
- Office hours @ 603 Lewisohn Hall, by appointment
(Call Teresa Gonzales, 212 854 1962, or email her teresa@columbia.edu)
- Office hours @ 603 Lewisohn Hall, by appointment
Meeting 28 • April 21 — Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
Context
- David L. Swartz. "From Critical Sociology to Public Intellectual: Pierre Bourdieu and Politics." Theory and Society, Vol. 32, No. 5/6, Special Issue on The Sociology of Symbolic Power: A Special Issue in Memory of Pierre Bourdieu (Dec., 2003), pp. 791-823. • JSTOR. • An interesting overview of Bourdieu's accomplishment.
- Frederic Vandenberghe. "'The Real is Relational': An Epistemological Analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's Generative Structuralism." Sociological Theory, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Mar., 1999), pp. 32-67. • JSTOR. • A dense essay, viewing Bourdieu in the context of philosopphy, not politics.
Text
- Pierre Bourdieu. Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. • Electronic Reserve.


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