Bourdieu's theory of culture offers a rich conceptual resource for the social‐scientific study of
religion. In particular, his analysis of cultural capital as a medium of social relations suggests …

▪ Abstract This article is about the influence of the work of the German sociologist Max Weber
(1864–1920) on English-speaking anthropologists. Although Weber does not figure …

The French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is now recognised as one of the major
thinkers of the twentieth century. In a career of over fifty years, Bourdieu studied a wide …

Postmodernism is, patently, no longer trendy. It is, however, a cultural paradigm which is
arguably worthy of serious study. Marxian and Weberian social science have classically …

On television and in films, in magazines and books, on the Internet and in the realm of
politics, celebrities of all sorts seem to dominate our attention. Celebrity Society: The …

This paper reflects upon Bourdieu's concept of cultural fields, Becker's concept of 'art worlds'
and the concept of networks as developed in social network analysis. We challenge the …

Modern social theory first emerged during the period of the 'great transformation,'a term used
by Karl Polanyi to describe the massive social change which took place in Europe between …

Religious exoticism implies a deeply ambivalent relationship to otherness and to religion
itself: traditional religious teachings are uprooted and fragmented in order to be …

This article addresses a general problem in media sociology–how to understand the media
both as an internal production process and as a general frame for categorizing the social …

Annotation This book melds rich ethnography with an understanding of recent history to
understand the issues surrounding upward social mobility, modernity and changing …