Symbolic Violence

In Symbolic Violence Michael Burawoy brings Pierre Bourdieu into an extended debate with Marxism—a tradition Bourdieu ostensibly avoided. While Bourdieu''s expansive body of work stands as a critique of Marx''s inadequate account of cultural domination, Burawoy shows how Bourdieu''s eschewal and rejection of Marxism led him to miss out on a number of productive theoretical engagements. In eleven “...