The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Béarn

by Pierre Bourdieu

Over the past four decades, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died in 2002, he was considered to be the most influential sociologist in the world and a thinker on a par with Foucault and L vi-Strauss--a public intellectual as important to his generation as Sartre was to his. Bourdieu's final book, The Bachelors' Ball, sees him return to B arn,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226067505
• ISBN13: 9780226067506
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"