What would Bourdieu make of the Voluntary Sector?
Bourdieu died in January 2002 having contributed some 40 books and 500 articles to a wide range of disciplines from anthropology to (the sociology of) sport. His work was ambitious in its scope and, at times, opaque. He pursued a sociology which was revolutionary in declining to follow the broadly relativist (including post-modernist) trends that were increasingly influential over the late twentieth century. Instead, he was concerned with objective realities, but he required accounts of these to include researchers and their perspectives on the subject of the research; his reflexive sociology. This was to be achieved partly through Bourdieu’s concepts of the field, of social (and other forms of) capital, and of ‘habitus’, which together provide the tools to understand the ‘logic’ of practice in different social spheres. His early work looked at both French and Algerian society, then literary and artistic fields. In so doing he was concerned not so much with the fact of certain social g
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