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The works of Pierre Bourdieu occupy a central place in the current development of world sociology. This volume offers an accessible but challenging introduction to Bourdieu's ideas. In a series of discussions, lectures and interviews, the range of Bourdieu's ideas is laid out and its relation to other disciplines and other sociological schools is explored. The issues developed include the sociology of culture, leisure and taste; the intrinsic reflexivity of social science; and the role of language in society and social sciences. `Bourdieu offers an easy introduction to some ideas and writing that have made a profound impact on general social theory.... Like his other writings, this book shakes the theoretical field of social science at its core. It invites the reader to explore a risky but fundamentally humanistic and optimistic sociology' - Anthropological Quarterly

Sociology in Question

The Art of Standing Up to Words

A Science that Makes Trouble

The Sociologist in Question

Are Intellectuals Out of Play?

How Can `Free-Floating Intellectuals' Be Set Free?

For a Sociology of Sociologists

The Paradox of the Sociologist

What Talking Means

Some Properties of Fields

The Linguistic Market

Censorship

'Youth' is Just a Word

Music-Lovers

Origin and Evolution of the Species

The Metamorphosis of Tastes

How Can Anyone Be a Sportsman?

Haute Couture and Haute Culture

But Who Created the `Creators'?

Public Opinion Does Not Exist

Culture and Politics

Strikes and Political Action

The Racism of `Intelligence'