Sociology Is a Martial Art

by Bourdieu, Pierre

• ISBN13: 9781595585431
• ISBN10: 1595585435
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-16
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the leading intellectuals of our times, a dissident sociologist who "assumed a public role in the tradition of Émile Zola and Jean-Paul Sartre" (New York Times). A 2007 Times of London survey of the most-cited authors in the humanities ranked Bourdieu ahead of every other noted thinker of the past century, second only to Michel Foucault. Bourdieu's writings helped inspire the mass movements against neoliberalism and globalization, and his books have been translated into dozens of languages, decisively shaping the way the world thinks about the changes wrought by the new global economy.

Author Biography

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century. He is the author of 37 books, including Distinction, named one of the 20th century’s ten most important works of sociology, as well as On Television, Acts of Resistance, and Firing Back (from The New Press).

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
On Journalism and Television	p. 1
Journalism and Politics	p. 3
On Television	p. 11
The Olympics-an Agenda for Analysis	p. 62
The Power of Journalism	p. 65
From Miscellany to a Matter of State	p. 75
Questions of Words	p. 78
Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market	p. 83
To the Reader	p. 85
The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State	p. 86
Sollers tel quel	p. 94
The Status of Foreigners: A Shibboleth	p. 97
Abuse of Power by the Advocates of Reason	p. 100
The Train Driver's Remark	p. 102
Against the Destruction of a Civilization	p. 104
The Myth of "Globalization" and the European Welfare State	p. 108
The Thoughts of Chairman Tietmeyer	p. 121
Social Scientists, Economic Science, and the Social Movement	p. 127
For a New Internationalism	p. 133
Return to Television	p. 141
The Government Finds the People Irresponsible	p. 147
Job Insecurity Is Everywhere Now	p. 149
The Protest Movement of the Unemployed, a Social Miracle	p. 155
The Negative Intellectual	p. 158
Neoliberalism, the Utopia (Becoming a Reality) of Unlimited Exploitation	p. 160
Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market 2	p. 171
Letter to the American Reader	p. 173
Preface	p. 175
For a Scholarship with Commitment	p. 179
The Imposition of the American Model and Its Effects	p. 186
The Invisible Hand of the Powerful	p. 191
Against the Policy of Depoliticization	p. 200
For a European Social Movement	p. 212
Grains of Sand	p. 220
Culture Is in Danger	p. 222
Unite and Rule	p. 234
Interviews and New Acts of Resistance	p. 245
For a Real Mobilization of Organized Forces	p. 247
For a Permanent Organization of Resistance to the New World Order	p. 251
The Intellectual Is Not Ethically Neutral	p. 255
A Sociologist in the World	p. 261
Epilogue: Remembering Pierre Bourdieu	p. 279
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson's Translator's Note: On Television	p. 288
References	p. 291
Notes	p. 295
Permissions	p. 309
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