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The Bourdieu Paradigm
  • Language: en

The Bourdieu Paradigm

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Analysing the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu, this book considers the historical development of competing philosophies of social science. It examines the relations between phenomenology, Gestalt psychology and empirical social science in the first half of the twentieth century and then explores the way in which Bourdieu responded to this legacy by advocating a form of reflexive social-scientific investigation, which would remain faithful to primary experience without disowning accumulated intellectualism. The book asks whether the Bourdieu 'paradigm' retains value beyond the French conditions of its production. It offers an analysis of the development of Bourdieu's thought and practice which constitutes an invitation to readers generally to reassess the value of the western tradition of the social function of the detached intellectual for mass democratic societies. --From publisher's website.

Cultural Relativism and International Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Cultural Relativism and International Politics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-12-11
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  • Publisher: SAGE

"The political and academic worlds are fractured by two competing discourses: the universalism of human rights and cultural relativism. This fracture is represented by the deep separation of cultural analysis and theories of international politics. Derek Robbins in a brilliant interrogation of European thinkers from Montesquieu to Pierre Bourdieu seeks to replace cultural relativism with cultural relationism as a step towards reconciling Enlightenment universalism and anthropological insistence on cultural difference. Inter alia he reflects on the tensions between political and social science and takes up the challenge from Raymond Aron to construct a sociology of international relations. A ...

Widening Participation in Post-Compulsory Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Widening Participation in Post-Compulsory Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-03-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Both nationally and internationally there is a drive to increase participation in post-compulsory education. Yet with existing participation rates already high by historical standards, it is not easy to see how this can be done. Now Liz Thomas provides a comprehensive guide. From an analysis of the motives for expansion and the reasons why students enroll--or fail to enroll--through to a critical analysis of existing and innovative schemes, the author highlights good practice and explains ways to develop a strategic approach to widening participation.

The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05-15
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  • Publisher: Anthem Press

For most of the twentieth century, Auguste Comte, a controversial but highly influential nineteenth-century figure, and his vast treatises on positive philosophy, politics and religion were disregarded and largely ignored. More recently, however, Comte’s life and writings have been reexamined together with the project of social reform to which his intellectual labors were devoted, producing a much more complicated picture of his thought and its significance. The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte—with ten new critical essays by leading Comte scholars, sociologists, intellectual historians, social theorists and philosophers—aims to further this reexamination while also providing a multifaceted introduction to Comte’s thought and to current discussion about him. The essays also examine Comte’s relation to a multiplicity of other thinkers, and his place more generally in the formation and legacy of modern Western thought.

An International Handbook of Tourism Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 658

An International Handbook of Tourism Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-08-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

As tourism matures as an academic subject and the number of tourism higher education providers continues to expand world-wide, there is an increasing interest in its educational aspects. At the same time the development of research into education issues related to tourism means that there is now a developing literature on the subject. This international handbook offers a timely evaluation of the sate of the art of tourism higher education. The book brings together expert contributors from around the world to present current thinking and practice about what is now a major element of education provision world-wide. It is structured round four key themes: - Curriculum - International perspectiv...

Bourdieu: The Next Generation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Bourdieu: The Next Generation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-12-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues. It will provide a discussion of the working mechanisms of thinking through and/or with Bourdieu when analysing data. In each chapter, individual authors discuss and reflect upon their own research and the ways in which they put Bourdieu to work. The aim of this book is not to just to provide examples of the development of Bourdieusian research, but for each author to reflect on the ways in which they came across Bourdieu’s work, why it speaks to them (including a reflexive consideration of their own background), and the way in which it is thus useful in their thin...

Pictures from an Institution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Pictures from an Institution

Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’s classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standard for campus satire—and instantly yielding comparisons to Dorothy Parker’s razor-sharp barbs. Like his fictional nemesis, Jarrell cuts through the earnest conversations at Benton College—mischievously, but with mischief nowhere more wicked than when crusading against the vitriolic heroine herself.

Encyclopedia of Social Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 752

Encyclopedia of Social Theory

The Encyclopedia of Social Theory cuts across all relevant disciplines, theories, approaches, and schools to present the latest information and research.

Out of Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 426

Out of Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-04-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

At the heart of this book is the argument that the fact that so many post-structuralist French intellectuals have a strong ‘colonial’ connection, usually with Algeria, cannot be a coincidence. The ‘biographical’ fact that so many French intellectuals were born in or otherwise connected with French Algeria has often been noted, but it has never been theorised. Ahluwalia makes a convincing case that post-structuralism in fact has colonial and postcolonial roots. This is an important argument, and one that ‘connects’ two theoretical currents that continue to be of great interest, post-structuralism and postcolonialism. The re-reading of what is now familiar material against the back...

Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-03-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This edited collection of essays exploring the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis and the implications for future research.