Dear Members,

The Bourdieu Study Group is pleased to announce it will be supporting the launch of Dr Will Atkinsons’ forthcoming book: Beyond Bourdieu (https://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9781509507481)


BEYOND BOURDIEU: Book Launch

Will Atkinson, with opening remarks by Professor Gregor McLennan

All welcome.  Wine reception included
 
October 12th 2016
16.00-18.30
University of Bristol
Social Science Complex, Priory Road 
Room 2D2 

Workshop

If there is sufficient interest, Will has also agreed to host a special workshop on the book's themes for BSA Bourdieu study group members (max 20 people) beforehand (13.45-15.30). Please get in contact with the Bourdieu study group ([log in to unmask]) if you would be interested in this. There would be a small workshop fee of £3.00.

Book Description

Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century, especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have receded. Now, however, his intellectual enterprise faces a new set of challenges unearthed by decades of sympathetic research: how to conceive the relationship between society and place, particularly in an increasingly global world; how to recognize the individual as a product of multiple forces and pressures; how to make sense of family relations and gender domination; and, ultimately, how to grasp how we each come to be the unique beings we are. 

This book tackles these challenges head on, starting from the philosophical core of Bourdieu's sociology and taking in hints and suggestions across his corpus, to propose a range of novel concepts and arguments. In the process it outlines a new way of looking at the world to complement Bourdieu's own Ð one in which the focus is on the multiple social structures shaping individuals' everyday lives, not the multiple individuals comprising a single social structure.

Table of Contents

•Acknowledgement
•1. Introduction
•2. The Lifeworld
•3. The Field of Family Relations
•4. Social Becoming
•5. Gender
•Epilogue: Sketch of a Research Programme
•Notes
•References
•Index

Author Information
Will Atkinson is Lecturer in Social Research at the University of Bristol