Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002)
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French sociologist who mapped how culture and class reinforce each other. Bourdieu's theories on education and taste became foundational across academia, anchoring decades of debate about who gets to decide what's legitimate.
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Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields. During his academic career he was primarily associated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and the Collège de France.
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