An accessible introduction to the work of the leading French social and cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu.

Jen Webb is Program Director of Writing in the School of Creative Communication and Culture Studies at the University of Canberra. Tony Schirato is co-author of Communication and Cultural Literacy and Asia: Cultural politics in the global age. Geoff Danaher teaches in the School of Contemporary Communication at Central Queensland University. They are authors of Understanding Foucault.

1. Contexts and approaches
2. Cultural field and the habitus
3. Theorising practice
4. Bourdieu's sociology
5. Government and bureaucracy
6. Bourdieu andsecondary schools
7. Bourdieu and higher education
8. The field of cultural production
9. Art and artists
10. Journalism and television
Bibliography