The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Béarn

The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Béarn

Over the past four decades, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died in 2002, he was considered to be the most influential sociologist in the world and a thinker on a par with Foucault and LÃ©vi-Straussâ€”a public intellectual as important to his generation as Sartre was to his.
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Bourdieuâ€™s final book, The Bachelorsâ€™ Ball, sees him return to BÃ©arn, theÂ region where he grew up, to examine the gender dynamics of rural France. This personal connection adds poignancy to Bourdieuâ€™s ethnographic account of the way the influence of urban values has precipitated a crisis for male peasants. Tied to the land through inheritance, these bachelors find themselves with little to offer the women of BÃ©arn who, like the young Bourdieu himself, abandon the country for the city in droves.
Country USA
Brand University of Chicago Press
Manufacturer University of Chicago Press
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ItemPartNumber 9 halftones, 1 line drawing, 20 tables
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EANs 9780226067506
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Country	USA
Brand	University of Chicago Press
Manufacturer	University of Chicago Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9 halftones, 1 line drawing, 20 tables
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780226067506
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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