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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction to Pierre Bourdieus Theory of Social FieldsMathieu Hilgers and Eric Mangez Part I: TheoreticalInvestigations 1.Was Bourdieu a Field Theorist? John LeviMartin and Forest Gregg 2.The Limits of the Field: Elementsfor a Theory of the Social Differentiation of Activities BernardLahire 3.The Field: a Leibnizian Perspective in Sociology LouisPinto Part II: Education, Culture And Organization 4. CollectiveAgents in the School Field: Positions, Dispositions andPosition-taking, in Educational and Vocational GuidanceGraldine Andr and Mathieu Hilgers 5.The Literary Fieldbetween the State and the Market Gisele Sapiro 6. A HeuristicTool: On the Use of the Concept of the Field in Two Studiesof Culture Julien Duval Part III: The State And Public Policy 7.The Field of Power and the Relative Autonomy of SocialFields. The Case of Belgium Eric Mangez and Georges Linard 8. The Fields of Public Policy Vincent Dubois 9.Field Theoryand Organizational Power: Four Modes of Influence amongPublic Policy "Think Tanks" Thomas Medvetz 10. Crafting theNeoliberal State Workfare, Prisonfare and Social InsecurityLoc Wacquant Afterword: Theory of Fields in the PostcolonialAge Mathieu Hilgers and Eric Mangez;

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Bourdieu's Theory ofSocial FieldsConcepts and Applications

Edited by Mathieu Hilgers, LAMC, Free University ofBrussels, Belgium and Eric Mangez, University of Louvain,Belgium

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Bourdieus theory of social fields is one of his keycontributions to social sciences and humanities. However,it has never been subjected to genuine critical examination.This book fills that gap and offers a clear and wide-rangingintroduction to the theory. It includes a critical discussionof its methodology and relevance in different subject areasin the social sciences and humanities.

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