Towards a Reflexive Sociology: A Workshop with Pierre Bourdieu

Abstract

Over the last two decades, the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged as one of the most innovative, wide-ranging, and influential bodies of theories and research in contemporary social science.1 Cutting deeply across the disciplinary boundaries that delimit sociology, anthropology, education, cultural history, linguistics, and philosophy, as well as across a broad spectrum of areas of specialized sociological inquiry (from the study of peasants, art, unemployment, schools, fertility, and literature to the