TY - BOOK ID - 48276397 TI - The Bourdieu paradigm PY - 2019 SN - 0719099390 9780719099397 1526127709 1526127717 1526146754 9781526127709 9781526127716 9781526146755 PB - Manchester DB - UniCat KW - Sociology KW - Philosophy KW - Bourdieu, Pierre, KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Bourdieu, Pierre KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Sociology - Philosophy KW - Sociology - 20th century KW - Bourdieu, Pierre, - 1930-2002 - Criticism and interpretation KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Philosophy. KW - Bourdieu, Pierre, - 1930-2002 KW - Action. KW - Cross-cultural conceptual transfer. KW - Experience. KW - Gestalt psychology. KW - Phenomenology. KW - Politics. KW - Reflexivity. KW - Sociology. KW - Thought. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48276397 AB - By analysing the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu, the book considers the historical development, influenced by social context, of competing philosophies of social science. Through detailed scrutiny of key texts, it examines the relations between phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, and empirical social science in the first half of the twentieth century, and then explores the way in which Bourdieu responded to this legacy by gradually advocating a form of reflexive social scientific investigation which would remain faithful to primary experience without disowning accumulated intellectualism. It asks whether the Bourdieu 'paradigm' retains value beyond the specifically French conditions of its production. It offers an analysis of the development of Bourdieu's thought and practice which constitutes an invitation to readers generally to reassess the value of the western tradition of the social function of the detached intellectual for mass democratic ER -