Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory: Critical Investigations / Edition 1

by Bridget Fowler, Mike Featherstone

Overview

This is the first comprehensive description of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of culture and habitus. Within the wider intellectual context of Bourdieu's work, this book provides a systematic reading of his assessment of the role of 'cultural capital' in the production and consumption of symbolic goods.

Bridget Fowler outlines the key critical debates that inform Bourdieu's work. She introduces his recent treatment of the rules of art, explains the importance of his concept of capital - economic and social, symbolic and cultural - and defines such key terms as habitus, practice and strategy, legitimate culture, popular art and distinction.

The book focuses particularly on Bourdieu's account of the nature of capit

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803976252
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/08/1997
Series:	Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society Series , #48
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTERPRETATIVE STUDIES
Situating Bourdieu
Cultural Theory and Sociological Perspectives
Bourdieu's Cultural Theory
Bourdieu, Postmodernism, Modernity
The Historical Genesis of Bourdieu's Cultural Theory
PART TWO: CRITICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Bourdieu and Modern Art
The Case of Impressionism
The Popular and the Middlebrow
Bourdieu, the Popular and the Periphery
Conclusion