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I went up to Cambridge in 1963 to read English. I had been a day-school ‘grammar school’ boy since the age of seven. For eleven years, therefore, I had travelled across Bristol from a lower middle-class suburb for six days a week in term time. My home culture was a Sunday culture in more than this sense, because my parents were loyal Baptists and strict observers of the sabbath. In true nonconformist fashion, my intellectual energies were directed towards trying to construct for myself a meaningful ‘world-view’ which would somehow possess the same moral authority as the religious conviction for which it was a substitute. My upbringing did not seem to require me to accept dogmatic theology whilst, however, there was an elevation of the process of making intellectual sense of things which went along with a depreciation or distrust of political involvement.
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See D. M. Robbins, ‘Culture and Criticism: Willey, Richards, and the Present’, in A. P. Foulkes (ed.), The Uses of Criticism (Bern: Herbert Lang, 1976), pp. 203–216.
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P. Bourdieu, J.-C. Chamboredon, J.-C. Passeron, Le metier de sociologue (Paris: Mouton-Bordas, 1968);
translated by R. Nice as The Craft of Sociology (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1991.)
P. Bourdieu, Esquisse d’une theorie de la pratique, precede de trois etudes d’ethnologie kabyle (Geneva: Droz, 1972);
translated by R. Nice as Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.)
P. Bourdieu, Les regies de Vart. Genese et structure du champ litteraire (Paris: Seuil, 1992);
translated by S. Emanuel as The Rules of Art. Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (Oxford: Polity Press, 1996.)
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translated by R. Johnson and H. Haacke as Free Exchange (Oxford: Polity Press, 1995.)
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ibid. pp. 25–6.
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P. Bourdieu, Le Déracinement, la crise de Vagriculture traditionnelle en Algérie (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1964.)
P. Bourdieu, ‘Célibat et condition paysanne’, Etudes rurales, 5–6, April–September, (1962), pp. 32–136.
‘Phénoménologie de la vie affective’ in P. Bourdieu, ‘Fieldwork in Philosophy’, in Choses Dites (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1987), p. 16;
translated by M. Adamson as ‘Phenomenology of emotional life’ in P. Bourdieu, ‘Fieldwork in Philosophy’, in In Other Words. (Oxford: Polity, 1990.)
P. Bourdieu, ‘Statistiques et Sociologie’ – pp. 9–12 of Travail et travailleurs en Algérie, op. cit.;
translated and introduced by D. M. Robbins as ‘Statistics and Sociology’, Group for Research into Access and Student Programmes, Working Paper 10, University of East London, 1994.
See D. M. Robbins, Bourdieu and Cultural Analysis (Oxford: Polity Press, forthcoming), for a full discussion of Bourdieu, Sartre, and Flaubert.
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P. Bourdieu, Le sens pratique (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1980);
translated by R. Nice as The Logic of Practice. (Oxford: Polity Press, 1990.)
P. Bourdieu, ‘Thinking about Limits’, in M. Featherstone, ed., Cultural Theory and Cultural Change. (London: Sage Publications, 1992), pp. 37–49.
M. Featherstone, ed., Cultural Theory and Cultural Change, op. cit. p. 41.
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Robbins, D. (1997). Ways of Knowing Cultures: Williams and Bourdieu. In: Wallace, J., Jones, R., Nield, S. (eds) Raymond Williams Now. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373464_3
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