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Author:   Mathieu Hilgers (LAMC, Free University of Brussels, Belgium) ,  Eric Mangez (University of Louvain, Belgium)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138921047

ISBN 10:   1138921041
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   25 June 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Introduction to Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Fields Part I: Theoretical Investigations 1.Was Bourdieu a Field Theorist? 2.The Limits of the Field: Elements for a Theory of the Social Differentiation of Activities 3. The Field: a Leibnizian Perspective in Sociology Part II: Education, Culture And Organization 4. Collective Agents in the School Field: Positions, Dispositions and Position-taking, in Educational and Vocational Guidance 5.The Literary Field between the State and the Market 6. A Heuristic Tool: On the Use of the Concept of the Field in Two Studies of Culture Part III: The State And Public Policy 7.The Field of Power and the Relative Autonomy of Social Fields. The Case of Belgium 8. The Fields of Public Policy 9.Field Theory and Organizational Power: Four Modes of Influence among Public Policy ""Think Tanks"" 10. Crafting the Neoliberal State Workfare, Prisonfare and Social Insecurity Afterword: Theory of Fields in the Postcolonial Age"

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Mathieu Hilgers is Associate Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Anthropology) and has been visiting researcher in many universities, more recently at Harvard University and University of London (Goldsmiths). His research focuses on the relationship between urbanization, capitalism and state building and discusses theory on globalization, social class and neoliberalism. He has published more than 45 papers in scientific journals and books some of which specifically discuss the work of Bourdieu. His most recent book is Une Ethnographie à l’échelle de la ville (Paris, Karthala, 2009) Eric Mangez is Professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium, where he teaches sociological theory, research method, and political sociology. He has published several papers and books that exploit Bourdieu’s field theory. He is author of Réformer les contenus d’enseignement. Une sociologie du curriculum (Paris: PUF, 2008) and co-editor of the World Yearbook of Education 2014.

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