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Title: Pierre Bourdieu: Language, Culture and Education

Pierre Bourdieu: Language, Culture and Education

Theory into Practice

by Michael Grenfell (Volume editor) Michael Kelly (Volume editor)
©2004 Edited Collection 333 Pages
Science, Society & Culture

Summary

Pierre Bourdieu is one of the key social theorists of the century. For the past forty years his many publications have defined a new approach to the study of such diverse fields as Education, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Gender, Sport, Language and the Media. There have been many commentaries on his work. This book is the first to offer a number of empirical studies conducted by researchers working with his ideas.

Details

Pages
333
Year
2004
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039101733
Language
English
Keywords
Bourdieu, Pierre Language and Culture Sociolinguistics Educational sociology Language and education
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 1999, 2001, 2004. 333 pp., 5 fig. 1 graph, 2 tables

Biographical notes

Michael Grenfell (Volume editor) Michael Kelly (Volume editor)

The Editors: Michael Grenfell is Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton. He was research associate with Bourdieu at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris and has collaborated on various projects. He is the co-author of «Bourdieu and Education» and numerous other books and articles on language, culture and education. Michael Kelly is Professor of French at the University of Southampton. His research has focussed on French intellectual and cultural history with books on the Catholic thinker Emmanuel Mounier, modern French Marxism, the reception of Hegel in France, and an Introduction to French Cultural Studies.

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