After Bourdieu [electronic resource] : Influence, Critique, Elaboration / edited by David L. Swartz, Vera L. Zolberg.

Introduction: Drawing inspiration from Bourdieu -- Introduction: Drawing inspiration from Bourdieu -- Intellectual Origins & Orientations -- In memoriam: Pierre Bourdieu 1930-2002 -- Rethinking classical theory -- Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of religion: A central and peripheral concern -- Pierre Bourdieu: Economic models against economism -- Culture and Fields -- Cultural capital in educational research: A critical assessment -- Forms of politicization in the French literary field -- Media meta-capital: Extending the range of Bourdieu's field theory -- Economics as a Cultural and Social Domain -- Flesh and the free market: (On taking Bourdieu to the options exchange) -- On the wealth of nations: Bourdieuconomics and social capital -- Culture and Politics -- Haunted by the specter of communism: Collective identity and resource mobilization in the demise of the Workers Alliance of America -- Bourdieu's political sociology and the politics of European integration -- From critical sociology to public intellectual: Pierre Bourdieu & politics.

The most significant French sociologist since Durkheim, Pierre Bourdieu's influence on intellectual life shows no sign of abating. He was a prolific and consequential scholar whose impact can be measured by the Social Science Citation Index and international surveys of academics. Conceptualizations, such as habitus and field, his heuristic treatment of cultural, economic, political, social and symbolic capital to analyze the uses of power, and his insistence upon melding the usually separated micro and macro levels of societal theorizing are now embedded in the basic vocabulary of sociology and anthropology. Whether or not in accord with his outlook, serious scholars are obliged to test themselves against his challenges. Bourdieu also played a considerable role as a public intellectual, taking positions on questions vital to France and to the world more generally. Many of his contributions stem from his important research projects: colonialism, educational inequality, the social foundations of taste in the arts and life styles, social reproduction of status relationships, and more recently, the impact of unchecked globalism on the disadvantaged. The articles in this book represent a sampling of the most recent and durable of the ongoing conversations, debates, and research orientations that Bourdieu launched.