This necessary, powerful, oblique, and misshapen book is part of a grand statement of the sociological imagination. . . . Bourdieu may now be handed the mantle of first maître à penser in Paris.”Times Literary Supplement
Preface to the English Edition. 1. A "Book For Burning"?. 2. The Conflict of the Faculties. 3. Types of Capital and Forms of Power. 4. The Defence of the Corps and the Break in Equilibrium. 5. The Critical Moment. Post-Script: The Categories of Professorial Judgement. Appendices. Notes. Index.