Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre-Félix Bourdieu (August 1, 1930-January 23, 2002) was a French sociologist. In his obituary, The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom said he "was, for many, the leading intellectual of present-day France... a thinker in the same rank as Foucault, Barthes and Lacan". His book Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, was named as one of the 20th century's 10 most important works of sociology by the International Sociological Association. Although he has a formidable reputation amongst sociologists in the English-speaking world, he is much less well-known among the general Anglophone intelligentsia than Foucault or Jacques Derrida.

References

• Mesthrie, R., J. Swann, A. Deumert, W.L. Leap (2000) Introducing Sociolingustics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Moores, S. (1993) Interpreting Audiences: The Ethnography of Media Consumption. London: Sage.