Category: structuration
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Giddens’ strange neglect of Bourdieu
One thing that has puzzled me was how Giddens would write essays on almost any major figure or strand in social theory — from Durkheim to Habermas via Goffman; even Frank Parkin, André Gorz and Ulf Himmelstrand — but almost nothing on Bourdieu. In the first instance, this is strange because they had a theoretical…