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Pour une histoire des sciences sociales. Hommage à Pierre Bourdieu
Author/s : Johan Heilbron, Remi Lenoir, Gisèle Sapiro, avec la collaboration de Pascale Pargamin
This volume is the result of a project that has always been dear to Pierre Bourdieu and that is of central concern in his last writings, namely to engage in a vast historical reconstruction of the social sciences. One year after his death, an international conference was held in his honour in Paris in 2003. It brought together the most renowned specialists of this domain in order to exchange the results of the research that Pierre Bourdieu had himself initiated during his seminar in 1997.
Emerging at the end of the nineteenth century, the social sciences have had to struggle against temporal and spiritual powers in order to acquire their autonomy and gain the right to propose a scientific discourse on morality, the family and society. Social scientists have thus had to define their practice in relation to traditional institutions like the church, the state and the academic world. Being particularly concerned with stakes of power, they have to be able to account for their own history.
This vast and ambitious research project is presented here on the basis of exemplary case studies, which concern both nineteenth and twentieth century developments, in France as well as abroad.
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Meetings
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May 14th-16th, 2008 - Humanities and social sciences in society
Dir. G. Sapiro - Université Paris Descartes
Publications & activities
On Bourdieu, Education and Society, By Derek Robbins
[27.9.2006] - Publications
The Bardwell Press is pleased to announce the publication of a major contribution to Bourdieu studies [...]
Bourdieu and the journalistic field
[14.11.2005] - Publications
Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieu's impassioned critique of our media-saturated culture [...]
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