The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in B饌rn (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226067506)

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 L騅i-Strauss--a public intellectual as important to his generation as Sartre was to his. Bourdieu's final book, The Bachelors' Ball, sees him return to B饌rn, the region where he grew up, to examine the gender dynamics of rural France. This personal connection adds poignancy to Bourdieu'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 B饌rn who, like the young Bourdieu himself, abandon the country for the city in droves.

Author: Pierre Bourdieu
ISBN-10: 0226067505
ISBN-13: 9780226067506
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2008
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.70d