The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power

By Pierre Bourdieu

Book Overview

Examining in detail the work of consecration carried out by elite education systems, Bourdieu analyzes the distinctive forms of power-political, intellectual, bureaucratic, and economic-by means of which contemporary societies are governed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804733465
• ISBN13: 9780804733465
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"