Publications

Publication details [#27810]

Grenfell, Michael and Michael Kelly. 1999. Pierre Bourdieu: Language, culture and education. Sage Periodical Presslang. 333 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language and culture | power

ISBN

3-90673-02

Annotation

This volume examines the ramifications of various conceptual tools provided by P. Bourdieu, focusing on key concepts such as field, habitus, cultural capital and symbolic power and the strengths and limitations of their application to issues of language, culture and education.

Reviewed by

Gòkè-Paríolá, Abíódún. 2002. Review of $Pierre Bourdieu: Language, culture and education.