Pierre Bourdieu

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Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist and public intellectual known for his influential theories on social capital, habitus, and the reproduction of social inequality.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
philosopher
public intellectual
sociologist
university teacher
awardReceived Huxley Memorial Medal
causeOfDeath cancer
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1930-08-01
dateOfDeath 2002-01-23
educatedAt Lycée Louis-le-Grand
École normale supérieure
employer Collège de France
University of Algiers
University of Lille
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
familyName Bourdieu
fieldOfWork anthropology
philosophy
social theory
sociology
fullName Pierre Félix Bourdieu
genre essay
social theory
givenName Pierre
hasOccupation anthropologist
philosopher
sociologist
university professor
influenced Bruno Latour
Didier Eribon
Loïc Wacquant
critical sociology
influencedBy Karl Marx
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Max Weber
Émile Durkheim
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Collège de France faculty
movement critical sociology
post-structuralism
structuralism
nativeLanguage French
notableConcept cultural capital
field (sociology)
habitus
reflexive sociology
reproduction of social inequality
social capital
symbolic capital
symbolic violence
notableWork Acts of Resistance
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Homo Academicus
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Pascalian Meditations
The Logic of Practice
The Rules of Art
placeOfBirth Denguin
France
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
placeOfDeath France
Paris
positionHeld Chair of Sociology at Collège de France
sexOrGender male
workLocation Paris

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