Pierre Bourdieu was born in Denguin (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), in southern France, to a postal worker and his wife. The household spoke Béarnese, a Gascon dialect. In 1962, Bourdieu married … See more

Much of Bourdieu's work observes the role of educational and cultural resources in the expression of agency. Bourdieu was in practice both … See more

Bourdieu developed a theory of the action, around the concept of habitus, which exerted a considerable influence in the social sciences. This theory seeks to show that social agents … See more

According to Bourdieu, agents do not continuously calculate according to explicit rational and economic criteria. Rather, social agents operate according to an implicit practical … See more

For Bourdieu, habitus was essential in resolving a prominent antinomy of the human sciences: objectivism and subjectivism.
As mentioned above, Bourdieu used the methodological and theoretical concepts of habitus and field in … See more

Bourdieu introduced the notion of capital, defined as sums of particular assets put to productive use. For Bourdieu, such assets could take various forms, habitually referring to several … See more

Bourdieu "was, for many, the leading intellectual of present-day France…a thinker in the same rank as Foucault, Barthes See more