{"product_id":"the-bachelors-ball-pierre-bourdieu-9780226067506","title":"The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in B饌rn","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Bachelors' Ball\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pierre Bourdieu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226067505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226067506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Pierre Bourdieu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990111748351,"sku":"9780226067506","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7321f6a7-ae9c-48ae-ba51-8919702727b9.jpg?v=1683303059","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-bachelors-ball-pierre-bourdieu-9780226067506","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}