Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste.
He is the author of Culture & Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and coeditor of After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration ..
Swartz is assistant professor of Sociology at Boston University and a senior editor of Theory and Society .
About the Author David L.
Arguing that Power and Politics stand at the core of Bourdieu\'s sociology, Swartz illuminates Bourdieu\'s Political project for the social sciences, as well as Bourdieu\'s own Political activism, explaining how Sociology is not just science but also a crucial form of Political engagement.
Swartz delves deeply into Bourdieu\'s work to show how central--but often overlooked--Power and Politics are to an understanding of sociology.
In Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals , David L.
By the time of his death in 2002, Bourdieu had become a leading public intellectual, and his argument about the more subtle and influential ways that cultural resources and Symbolic categories prevail in Power arrangements and practices had gained broad recognition.
He emphasized that Symbolic Power helps create and maintain social hierarchies, which form the very bedrock of Political life.
Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that Symbolic power--the Power to dominate--is solely symbolic.
And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of Power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.
Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste
