Sociology Is a Martial Art

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the leading intellectuals of our times, a dissident sociologist who "assumed a public role in the tradition of Émile Zola and Jean-Paul Sartre" (New York Times). A 2007 Times of London survey of the most-cited authors in the humanities ranked Bourdieu ahead of every other noted thinker of the past century, second only to Michel Foucault. Bourdieu's writings helped inspire the mass movements against neoliberalism and globalization, and his books have been translated into dozens of languages, decisively shaping the way the world thinks about the changes wrought by the new global economy.

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century. He is the author of 37 books, including Distinction, named one of the 20th century’s ten most important works of sociology, as well as On Television, Acts of Resistance, and Firing Back (from The New Press).