Philip S. Gorski is Professor of Sociology and of Religious Studies at Yale University, where he directs the European Studies Council and codirects the Center for Comparative Research and the MacMillan Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society. He is the author of The Protestant Ethic Revisited and The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Bourdieu as a Theorist of Change / Philip S. Gorski 1
Part I. Situating Bourdieu
1. Metaprinciples for Sociological Research in a Bourdieusian Perspective / David L. Swartz 19
2. For the Social History of the Present: Bourdieu as Historical Sociologist / Craig Calhoun 36
3. Comparative and Transnational History and the Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu: Theory and Practice / Christophe Charle 67
Part II. Theoretical Engagements
4. Rational Choice May Take Over / Ivan Ermakoff 89
5. Toward Socioanalysis: The "Traumatic Kernel" of Psychoanalysis and Neo-Bourdieusian Theory / George Steinmetz 108
6. Dewey and Bourdieu on Democracy / Mustafa Emirbayer and Erik Schneiderhan 131
7. Spaces Between Fields / Gil Eyal 158
8. Bourdieu's Two Sociologies of Knowledge / Charles Camic 183
Part III. Historical Extensions
9. T. H. Marshall Meets Pierre Bourdieu: Citizens and Paupers in the Development of the U. S. Welfare State / Chad Alan Goldberg 215
10. Nation-ization Struggles: A Bourdieusian Theory of Nationalism / Philip S. Gorski 242
11. Structural History and Crisis Analysis: The Literary Field in France during the Second World War / Gisèle Sapiro 266
12. The Transmission of Masculinities: The Case of Early Modern France / Robert Nye 286
13. The Making of a Field with Weak Autonomy: The Case of the Sport Field in France, 1895–1955 / Jacques Defrance 303
Conclusion. Bourdieusian Theory and Historical Analysis: Maps, Mechanisms, and Methods / Philip S. Gorski 327
Appendix 1. English Translations of Bourdieu's Works 367
Appendix 2. Original Publication Dates of Bourdieu''s Monographs 368
Works Cited 369
Contributors 409
Index 413