本书由三个部分组成，第一部分是诠释性的，它通过勾勒出布迪厄有关知识、实践和社会的理论结构及其学术图景的轮廓，向人们展示了布迪厄著作的广博体系和内在理路；第二部分是分析性的，主要是在芝加哥大学研讨班所展开的精心构思的对话内容，在这一部分，布迪厄澄清了他的理论研究实践和经验研究实践的全部重要之处，并对这两方面的实践进行了反思；第三部分以巴黎研讨班的讨论为基础，为1988年春天布迪厄在法国社会科学高等研究中心为他的研究生讨论课所做的导论性质的发言。在这些讨论课上，布迪厄没有灌输某一组概念，而是强调一种产生社会学创造力的一般性倾向，他倡导并采纳了一种总体性的自我指涉教学法。

Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the influence of his work, no single introduction to his wide-ranging "oeuvre" is available. This book, intended for an English-speaking audience, offers a systematic and accessible overview, providing interpretive keys to the internal logic of Bourdieu's work by explicating thematic and methodological principles underlying his work. The structure of Bourdieu's theory of knowledge, practice, and society is first dissected by Loï c Wacquant; he then collaborates with Bourdieu in a dialogue in which they discuss central concepts of Bourdieu's work, confront the main objections and criticisms his work has met, and outline Bourdieu's views of the relation of sociology to philosophy, economics, history, and politics. The final section captures Bourdieu in action in the seminar room as he addresses the topic of how to practice the craft of reflexive sociology. Throughout, they stress Bourdieu's emphasis on reflexivity--his inclusion of a theory of intellectual practice as an integral component of a theory of society--and on method--particularly his manner of posing problems that permits a transfer of knowledge from one area of inquiry into another. Amplified by notes and an extensive bibliography, this synthetic view is essential reading for both students and advanced scholars. Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the Collè ge de France. Loï c J. D. Wacquant is a Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University.

1988年，历史学家罗杰·夏蒂埃在法国文化电台接待了社会学家皮埃尔·布尔迪厄，同他进行了五次对话。本书全文收录了这五次对话，并将其再现于当时的知识和政治背景中。这些对话既表现了他们之间的默契，也反映出他们对相互差异的清醒认识。社会学家与历史学家就他们各自的学科及其社会作用展开了较量。 2002年初，布尔迪厄突然去世。法国文化电台重播了这五期节目，以示缅怀。

《实践理论大纲》是布尔迪厄对于人、社会和文化的理论思考与探索，其田野调查材料来源于50年代的阿尔及利亚 ，通过对当地居民婚姻策略、仪式行为、神话的地位等问题的深入细致考察，布迪厄提出了有关“制度与实践、个人与社会、认识论与谋略、符号与社会场域辩证关系”的基本观点。 实践理论(Theory of Practice)这个概念，是布尔迪厄首先在他的《实践理论大纲》一书中提出的。作者始终在理论—田野—重新构建—阐述理论中不断深入。正如该书的出版者所说的，虽然该书既不能满足那些只对人类科学进行思考而不动手实践的“理论家”，也不能让那些只知埋头实践而不知坐下来思考的“实干家”满意，但对于人类学者和社会学家来说却是非常重要、不可不读的。

《世界的苦难》是布尔迪厄晚年与其他22位合作者以细腻的情感和认真的观察及倾听，耗时三年访谈数百人所写就的田野调查著作。通过一个个以访谈形式出现的鲜活的生活史个案，展示了当代法国社会普通人日常生活中的种种困难与痛苦，并透过社会学的解释，揭示出痛苦背后深刻的社会和政治根源 ，以及人与社会的复杂关系。本书是布尔迪厄将学者责任与公民使命融为一体，集中探讨弱势群体艰难处境的最著名成果。在看似平淡的个人生活史的叙述中蕴含着震撼人心的苦难真相。

No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. In the course of everyday life people constantly choose between what they find aesthetically pleasing and what they consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. Bourdicu bases his study on surveys that took into account the multitude of social factors that play a part in a Frenchperson's choice of clothing, furniture, leisure activities, dinner menus for guests, and many other matters of taste. What emerges from his analysis is that social snobbery is everywhere in the bourgeois world. The different aesthetic choices people make are all distinctions-that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. Taste is not pure. Bourdieu finds a world of social meaning in the decision to order bouillabaisse, in our contemporary cult of thinness, in the "California sports" such as jogging and cross-country skiing. The social world, he argues, functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement. The topic of Bourdieu's book is a fascinating one: the strategies of social pretension are always curiously engaging. But the book is more than fascinating. It is a major contribution to current debates on the theory of culture and a challenge to the major theoretical schools in contemporary sociology.

During the last two decades, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has become a dominant force in cultural activity ranging from taste in music and art to choices in food and lifestyles. The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's major essays on art and literature and provides the first introduction to Bourdieu's writings and theory of a cultural field that situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation, and consumption. Bourdieu develops a hightly original apprach to tge study of literary and artistic works, addressing many of the key issues that have preoccupied literary, art, and cultural criticism in the lat twentieth century: aesthetic value and canonicity, intertextuality, the institutional frameworks of cultural practice, the social role of intellectuals and artists, and structures of literary and artistic authority. Bourdieu elaborates a theory of the cultural field which situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation, and consumption. He examines the individuals and institutions involved in making cultural prodycts what they are: not only the writers and artists, but also the publishers, critics, dealers, galleries, and academies. He analyses the structure of the cultural field itself as well as its position within the broader social structures of power.The essays in his volume examine such diverse topics as Flaubert's point of view, Manet's aesthetic revolution, the historical creation of the pure gaze, and the relationship between art and power.The Field of Cultural Porduction will be of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines: sociology and social theory, literature, art, and cultural studies.

Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the principle which negotiates between objective structures and practices, Bourdieu is able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world. The author draws on his fieldwork in Kabylia (Algeria) to illustrate his theoretical propositions. With detailed study of matrimonial strategies and the role of rite and myth, he analyses the dialectical process of the 'incorporation of structures' and the objectification of habitus, whereby social formations tend to reproduce themselves. A rigorous consistent materialist approach lays the foundations for a theory of symbolic capital and, through analysis of the different modes of domination, a theory of symbolic power.

本书很可能会令那些习惯于标准化的理论产品的“消费者”困惑不解，也会令那些急于寻觅布迪厄著作的一个公式化的简译本——一本“布迪厄基本思想手册”——的读者失望。本书既不是入门指南，也不是一次建构理论的尝试。本书阐明那些支撑布迪厄的科学实践的原则，向读者提供理解布迪厄科学的内在理路和广博体系的钥匙。 本书由三部分组成。第一部分通过勾画出布迪厄有关知识、实践和社会的理论结构及其学术图景的轮廓，向读者提供了理解布迪厄著作的广博体系和内在理路的钥匙；第二部分主要反映芝加哥大学研讨斑的成就；第三部分以巴黎研讨班的讨论为基础，反思社会学的实践。