Things said, things unsaid Bourdieu was born "Pierre Felix Bourdieu" in Denguin (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), in southern France on 1 August 1930, to a postal worker and his wife"; Strictly, he was born to a wife and a postal worker, no? "Gascon was the language spoken at home. He married Marie-Claire Brizard in 1962;" In Gascon. They married in Gascon. "The couple had three sons, Jérôme, Emmanuel and Laurent." ----SHE chose most of the names. "Bourdieu was educated at the lycée in Pau, before moving to the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, from which he gained entrance to the Ecole Normale Supérieure." -- where "normal" contrasts with _abnormal_ (The French system of education). "Bourdieu studied philosophy with Louis Althusser in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure. After getting his agrégation Bourdieu worked as a lycée teacher at Moulins from 1955 to 1958 when he then took a post as lecturer in Algiers. During the Algerian War in 1958-1962, Bourdieu undertook ethnographic research into the clash through a study of the Kabyle peoples, of the Berbers laying the groundwork for his anthropological reputation. The result was his first book, Sociologie de L'Algerie (The Algerians), which was an immediate success in France and published in America in 1962." --- It was notably NOT a success with ALGERIANS! "In 1960 Bourdieu returned to the University of Paris before gaining a teaching position at the University of Lille where he remained until 1964. From 1964 onwards Bourdieu held the position of Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (the future École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), in the VIe section, and from 1981, the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France, in the VIe section (held before him by Raymond Aron and Maurice Halbwachs). In 1968, he took over the Centre de Sociologie Européenne, the research center that Aron had founded, which he directed until his death." The VIe section is very important. Compared to the I, II, III, IV, and V sections. "In 1975, with the research group he had formed at the Centre de Sociologie Européenne, he launched the interdisciplinary journal Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, with which he sought to transform the accepted canons of sociological production while buttressing the scientific rigor of sociology. In 1993 he was honored with the "Médaille d'or du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique" (CNRS). In 1996, he received the Goffman Prize from the University of California, Berkeley" After Irving Goffman, of "face" fame. and in 2001 the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.[5] Bourdieu died of cancer at the age of 71." Books: Algeria 1960: The Disenchantment of the World: The Sense of Honour: The Kabyle House or the World Reversed: Essays, Cambridge Univ Press 1979. Les héritiers: les étudiants et la culture (1964), Eng. The Inheritors: French Students and Their Relations to Culture, University of Chicago Press 1979. --- In French, it is not ANALYTIC to say, "The student studies". Hence, people need to write books on the French student and his (or her) relation to culture. Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique, précédé de trois études d'ethnologie kabyle, (1972), Eng. Outline of a Theory of Practice, Cambridge University Press 1977. Homo Academicus, (French Edition) Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1984. (English Edition) Polity, 1990. Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (Theory, Culture and Society Series), Sage, 1990, with Jean-Claude Passeron (in French: La Reproduction. Éléments pour une théorie du système d'enseignement, Minuit, 1970). with Luc Boltanski e P. Maldidier, La défense du corps, in Social Science Information, Vol. 10, n° 4, pp. 45–86, 1971. with Luc Boltanski, Le titre et le poste : rapports entre système de production et système de reproduction, in Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Vol. 1, n° 2, pp. 95 – 107, 1975 with Luc Boltanski, Le fétichisme de la langue, in Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Vol. 1, n° 4, pp. 2– 32, 1975. with Luc Boltanski, La production de l'idéologie dominante, in Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Vol. 2, n° 2-3, 1976, pp. 4–73, 1976-06. Bourdieu, Pierre, Distinction: a Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, trans. Richard Nice, 1984.Harvard University Press. Choses dites, 1987 Eng. In Other Words: Essays toward a Reflective Sociology, Stanford, 1990. " The Corporatism of the Universal: The Role of Intellectuals in the Modern World ". TELOS 81 (Fall 1989). New York: Telos Press Language and Symbolic Power, Harvard University Press 1991. The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger, Polity, 1991. The Love of Art: European Art Museums and Their Public, Stanford University Press, 1991. Language & Symbolic Power, Harvard University Press, 1991; paperback edition, Polity, 1992.[1] An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology with Loïc Wacquant, University of Chicago Press and Polity, 1992. with Hans Haacke, Free Exchange, Stanford University Press, 1995. with Luc Boltanski and Robert Castel, Photography: A Middle-Brow Art, Stanford University Press, 1996. Les régles de l'art, 1992; Eng. Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, Stanford University Press, 1996. with Monique De Saint Martin, Jean-Claude Passeron, Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power, Polity 1996. Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, Stanford University Press, 1998. State nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power, Polity, 1998. Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society, Polity, 1999. On Television, New Press, 1999. Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market, New Press, 1999. Pascalian Meditations, Polity, 2000. La domination masculine, 1998; Eng. Masculine Domination, Polity, 2001. Interventions politiques (1960–2000). Textes & contextes d’un mode d’ intervention politique spécifique, 2002. Contre-Feux, 1998; Eng. Counterfire: Against the Tyranny of the Market, Verso Books 2003. Science de la science et réflexivité, 2002; Eng. Science of Science and Reflexivity, Polity 2004. The Social Structures of the Economy, Polity 2005. JLSperanza--Bordighera