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Social Critique: Discrimination and Inequality

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Social Movements and Symbolic Power
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This chapter, broadly, is the expression of civil society. It describes the social context from which the theories of Bourdieu and Touraine are derived and which gives meaning to those theories. They are examined in detail in the following chapter.

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Girling, J. (2004). Social Critique: Discrimination and Inequality. In: Social Movements and Symbolic Power. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000728_2

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