Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social theorists of our time. He developed a
series of concepts to uncover the way society works and to challenge assumptions about …

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

Is it true that religion is weakening in modern times, or are we facing religious resurgence?
What is fundamentalism? How does it emerge and grow? What role does religion play in …

In den letzten Jahren hat sich in den Sozialwissenschaften und insbesondere in der
Soziologie die Foucaultsche Diskurstheorie als Grundlagentheorie etablieren können …

In this paper we use the concept of social capital to outline a distinctive approach to
understanding the interplay between management control systems and the development of …

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the
dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies …

This article challenges what is now the orthodoxy concerning the heritage of Bourdieu (1930–
2002): namely, the judgement that his distinctive sociological innovation has been his theory …

This book presents case studies and empirical data of a phenomenon which increasingly
gains popularity in Western societies: deconversion. There is, the authors argue, no better …

Pierre Bourdieu advocated relational thinking and a relational methodology. Nevertheless,
he rejected social network analysis as a suitable technique for analyzing fields and he …

This essay examines key features of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture in light of their
potential contribution to the sociology of religion. For Bourdieu, religion can be analyzed as …