An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology

the book was labeled good condition with some underlying and notes. nothing was disruptive of reading. most notable, however, was the speed of delivery

A very heavy yet insightful read.

If you are reading this you already know that this is not the place for consumer reviews. Bourdieu adds this to his series on higher education and the cretins that inhabit that "field". Let's all "objectivize the objectivisors"!

It book will help me a lot in my thesis, in special, The Purpose of Rflexive Sociology Chapter.Another point, it is currently to my job.

In this book, you find all the major themes running through Bourdieu's work expressed in a very accessible way. It's a wonderful introduction to his sociology!

24 pages missing and 24 pages duplicated!

worked great for my research

I'm an aspiring historian, not a sociologist. Bourdieu's work, however, is of such a caliber that it transcends arbitrary academic boundaries. It's essential reading for anyone who's interested in the ontology and epistemology of humankind.He's difficult to read, though. That's one of the reasons this book is so valuable. Loic Wacquant (no sociological slouch himself) has undertaken to provide an exposition of Bourdieu's ideas without trivializing them. Some of those ideas that struck a chord with me include replacing the false antinomy of structure/agent with notions of "field" and "habitus" (structure and agency's relationship to one another); cultural capital and symbolic power (more balanced perspectives on the philosophy/sociology of language); and the inherent bias of the intellectual qua intellectual (apart from race, class, etc).Bourdieu is definitely postmodern, but once the reader grasps the technically precise language in which they are articulated, his ideas are surprisingly down-to-earth. P.B. would probably not much like that I write this--he abhors the intuitive in social science--but that's what comes of thinking well and writing carefully. This is a job well done by Wacquant. I highly recommend it for serious students.

This book has been an invaluable access point to both aspects of Bourdieu's theory of practice and his methodological approach in my PhD work. I have not found it at all inaccessible - the crime Bourdieu is usually accused of - in fact, the discussion of the notion of field has been more revealing to me than secondary commentaries that I have read. The discursive format helps with this I think, and it is littered with examples of application. It is a great insight both into what Bourdieu thinks and how he thinks, both of which are equally important in a Bourdieusian perspective.

A hard, but interesting read.

Just what I wanted, grerat condition

Good condition, as advertised.