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Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu

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2025
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Social Sciences and Humanities
France
2023

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2001 - Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
  • 2000 - Huxley Memorial Medal, Royal Anthropological Institute, United Kingdom
  • 1993 - CNRS Gold Medal, French National Centre for Scientific Research Sociology

Overview

Pierre Bourdieu was affiliated with the Collège de France in France and contributed extensively to the social sciences over their career. Their research spanned various fields, with a primary focus on sociology and political science, as well as intersections with history, general economics, econometrics and finance, philosophy, and museology.

Their scientific work covered topics such as education, sociology, and vocational training; philosophy and historical thought; political theology and sovereignty; philosophy, sociology, and political theory; fashion and cultural textiles; cultural industries and urban development; and French urban and social studies.

Frequent collaborators included Franz Schultheis, Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Martina Löw, and Anthony Giddens. These partnerships produced research contributing to the body of knowledge in social sciences and related areas.

Publication venues where Pierre Bourdieu's work appeared regularly included Manchester University Press eBooks, REPOCS - Revista Pós Ciências Sociais, Agora, Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, and Bristol University Press eBooks.

Key recent papers published by Pierre Bourdieu were:

  • L'ontologie politique de Martin Heidegger, 2022, Variations
  • Violencia simbólica, 2021, Revista Latina de Sociología
  • ESTRATÉGIAS DE REPRODUÇÃO E MODOS DE DOMINAÇÃO, 2020, REPOCS - Revista Pós Ciências Sociais
  • Y a-t-il un besoin des sciences sociales ?, 2022, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales
  • Die biographische Illusion [BIOS 3 (1990), Heft 1, 75-81], 2021, BIOS - Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen

Published books include titles such as Interventions (1961-2001). Science sociale et action politique (2022) from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, PROBLEMS OF INFORMATION SUPPORT AND LEGAL REGULATION OF E-GOVERNANCE IN UKRAINE (2022) from Tuculart Edition eBooks, and Vizualna pismenost: Teoretsko raziskovanje, razumevanje, ustvarjanje in interpretacija sodobnosti (2024) from Založba Univerze v Ljubljani (University of Ljubljana Press) eBooks.

Among awards received were the Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2001, the Huxley Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute in the United Kingdom in 2000, and the CNRS Gold Medal from the French National Centre for Scientific Research in 1993, awarded in the field of sociology.

Best Publications

  • Outline of a theory of practice

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • The logic of practice

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • Outline of a Theory of Practice.

    Arthur W. Frank;Pierre Bourdieu

  • Language and Symbolic Power

    Pierre Bourdieu;John B. Thompson

  • An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology

    Pierre Bourdieu;Loïc J. D. Wacquant

  • Reproduction in education, society and culture

    Pierre Bourdieu;Jean Claude Passeron

  • Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • Razões práticas: sobre a teoria da ação

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • SOCIAL SPACE AND SYMBOLIC POWER

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • Esquisse d ' une théorie de la pratique.(précédé de) trois études d ' éthnologie kabyle

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • La distinción: criterio y bases sociales del gusto

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • Le capital social

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • Science of Science and Reflexivity

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • The social space and the genesis of groups

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • La miseria del mundo

    Horacio Pons;Pierre Bourdieu

  • The Field of Cultural Production Essays on Art and Literature

    Pierre Bourdieu;Randal Johnson

  • The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • La misère du monde

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • Sociology in Question

    Pierre Bourdieu;Richard Nice

Frequent Co-Authors

Loïc Wacquant
Loïc Wacquant University of California, Berkeley
Luc Boltanski
Luc Boltanski École Normale Supérieure
Roger Chartier
Roger Chartier Collège de France
Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton Lancaster University
Craig Calhoun
Craig Calhoun Arizona State University
Robert Boyer
Robert Boyer School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Arthur W. Frank
Arthur W. Frank University of Calgary
Michèle Lamont
Michèle Lamont Harvard University
James S. Coleman
James S. Coleman University of Chicago
Veena Das
Veena Das Johns Hopkins University

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