社會中任何的品味判斷都其來有自。《區判》出色地闡明了現代世界中產階級的自命不凡，該書出版於1979年，是一部當代法國的龐大民族志，也是對社會階層思想的深刻剖析。在日常生活中，我們不斷在「我們認為具有美感的事物」和「我們認為俗氣或醜陋的事物」之間做出抉擇。品味並不純粹，這些不同的審美選擇都是「區判」，也就是「與其他階級的選擇相對立的選擇」。世界同時倚賴權力關係系統與符號系統運行，而品味的細緻區別，便成為社會判斷的基礎。
布赫迪厄推翻了從未被質疑過的關於美、藝術與文化的範疇：「區判」的類別取決於一個人在社會階層中的位置。決定它們的因素，一方面是「文化資本」，即教育水準；另一方面是「經濟資本」，即社會處境。透過分析不同社會階層及教育系統之間關係的轉變，在每個階層中區分出一般的行為法則，使得建立一套生活方式的「系統」成為可能。社會主體透過其成員所展現的「區判」，即美味與平淡、美麗與醜陋、別致與俗氣、傑出與低俗之間的區別判準，針對分類系統（品味）與生存條件（階層）展開分析，轉化為客觀系統選擇的形式，從而觸發了「品味判斷的社會批判」。本書揭露了這些模式與社會階層及其生活樣態的描繪密不可分，並輔以大量田調成果及理論批評辨析，梳理了所有關於美感、藝術、品味與文化等傳統問題的重新表述。
無庸置疑，《區判》是衝擊當代社會科學最為劇烈的經典之作，國際社會學會（ISA）將其列入二十世紀最重要十大社會學著作，影響力跨越各學門領域，開拓數十年來大眾文化分析全新路徑。其所提出的美學稟賦思辨，足堪撼動康德以降的純粹美學理論，迫使研究者重探品味生產的社會條件。不論當代的經典書單如何更新汰換，永遠不會遺漏《區判》：它改變了原有的文化社會學樣貌。

No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's "Distinction" brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First published in 1979, the book is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. In the course of everyday life, we constantly choose between what we find aesthetically pleasing, and what we consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. Taste is not pure. Bourdieu demonstrates that our different aesthetic choices are all distinctions - that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. This fascinating work argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement.

Over the last four decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died two years ago, he was considered to be a thinker on a par with Foucault, Barthes, and Lacan--a public intellectual as influential to his generation as Sartre was to his.
"Science of Science and Reflexivity" will be welcomed as a companion volume to Bourdieu's now seminal "An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology." In this posthumous work, Bourdieu declares that science is in danger of becoming a handmaiden to biotechnology, medicine, genetic engineering, and military research--that it risks falling under the control of industrial corporations that seek to exploit it for monopolies and profit.
Science thus endangered can become detrimental to mankind. The line between pure and applied science, therefore, must be subjected to intense theoretical scrutiny. Bourdieu's goals in "Science of Science and Reflexivity" are to identify the social conditions in which science develops in order to reclaim its objectivity and to rescue it from relativism and the forces that might exploit it. In the grand tradition of scientific reflections on science, Bourdieu provides a sociological analysis of the discipline as something capable of producing transhistorical truths; he presents an incisive critique of the main currents in the study of science throughout the past half century; and he offers a spirited defense of science against encroaching political and economic forces.
A masterful summation of the principles underlying Bourdieu's oeuvre and a memoir of his own scientific journey, "Science of Science and Reflexivity" is a capstone to one of the most important and prodigious careers in the field of sociology.

本书由三个部分组成，第一部分是诠释性的，它通过勾勒出布迪厄有关知识、实践和社会的理论结构及其学术图景的轮廓，向人们展示了布迪厄著作的广博体系和内在理路；第二部分是分析性的，主要是在芝加哥大学研讨班所展开的精心构思的对话内容，在这一部分，布迪厄澄清了他的理论研究实践和经验研究实践的全部重要之处，并对这两方面的实践进行了反思；第三部分以巴黎研讨班的讨论为基础，为1988年春天布迪厄在法国社会科学高等研究中心为他的研究生讨论课所做的导论性质的发言。在这些讨论课上，布迪厄没有灌输某一组概念，而是强调一种产生社会学创造力的一般性倾向，他倡导并采纳了一种总体性的自我指涉教学法。

本书是布尔迪厄在法兰西公学院讲授的两堂电视公开教学课的内容。
本书持批判的态度，应用社会学结构主义的方法，以“场域”的概念为线索，揭示了电视在资本主义社会中的基本功能。
第一讲“台前幕后”剖析了影响电视的运作的内部机制，揭露了电视形象与电视话语背后的运作秘密；第二讲“无形的结构及其影响”揭示了电视如何通过引入收视率逻辑深刻地改变了不同场域的运作。
附录部分是三篇整理后的论文，目的是启发读者进行更为深入的思考。
本书中提出的媒介场域理论对于我国的新闻实践有着重要的启示意义。

《实践感》是布迪厄的最重要著作。通过对卡比利亚(阿尔及利亚)柏柏尔人社会的观察和研究,作者反思自身的社会学实践,揭示并分析了实践逻辑与学术性思维的差异,指出人类学研究要成为真正的科学,就必须对科学实践和行为和工具,对研究者与其对象的关系实施客观化。该书有助于读者全面了解作者的学术思想及其在社会学理论认识和科学实践方面创立的一系列概念。
《实践感》是布迪厄的最重要著作。通过对卡比利亚(阿尔及利亚)柏柏尔人社会的观察和研究,作者反思自身的社会学实践,揭示并分析了实践逻辑与学术性思维的差异,指出人类学研究要成为真正的科学,就必须对科学实践和行为和工具,对研究者与其对象的关系实施客观化。该书有助于读者全面了解作者的学术思想及其在社会学理论认识和科学实践方面创立的一系列概念。

Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object of study is a particular instance of the relationship between knowing and doing, interpreting and using, symbolic mastery and practical mastery--or between logical logic, armed with all the accumulated instruments of objectification, and the universally pre-logical logic of practice. In this, his fullest statement of a theory of practice, Bourdieu both sets out what might be involved in incorporating one's own standpoint into an investigation and develops his understanding of the powers inherent in the second member of many oppositional pairs--that is, he explicates how the practical concerns of daily life condition the transmission and functioning of social or cultural forms. The first part of the book, "Critique of Theoretical Reason," covers more general questions, such as the objectivization of the generic relationship between social scientific observers and their objects of study, the need to overcome the gulf between subjectivism and objectivism, the interplay between structure and practice (a phenomenon Bourdieu describes via his concept of the "habitus), the place of the body, the manipulation of time, varieties of symbolic capital, and modes of domination. The second part of the book, "Practical Logics," develops detailed case studies based on Bourdieu's ethnographic fieldwork in Algeria. These examples touch on kinship patterns, the social construction of domestic space, social categories of perception and classification, and ritualized actions and exchanges. This book develops in full detail the theoretical positions sketched in Bourdieu's "Outline of a Theory of Practice. It will be especially useful to readers seeking to grasp the subtle concepts central to Bourdieu's theory, to theorists interested in his points of departure from structuralism (especially fom Levi-Strauss), and to critics eager to understand what role his theory gives to human agency. It also reveals Bourdieu to be an anthropological theorist of considerable originality and power.

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★ 一份自我分析的行动纲领
“人们需要得到科学的凝视，这种凝视既是对象化的，又是理解性的，当它转向某人自己时，这个人就可能会接受自己，甚至提出自己的主张、要求获得做自己的权利。”
★一座面向非专业人士的社会学智识“武器库”
在本书收录的文章中，布迪厄直言“拒绝‘向已信教者传教’”，毅然将目光转向非专业读者、被支配群体，殚精竭虑地向他们传授社会学的思想方法:“我们必须将问题掌握在自己手中……你们可以获得理解这些事情的智识资源，不要让你们的义愤、盲目剥夺了自己使用理解工具的可能，做一个知识分子不是一种病。”
★概览布迪厄研究方法和主题的实用读本
布迪厄用一种简明扼要而不失严谨的语言阐明了其典型研究主题、理论方法和分析路径，坦诚地剖析了他与社会学家自身根深蒂固的预设的种种斗争。
★在这本书中，皮埃尔·布迪厄试图满足两个通常被视为矛盾的要求：说一种科学、自制的语言（这是与日常语言所携带的自发的社会哲学决裂的条件之一），同时将这种语言传递给那些处于被支配地位、被剥夺了智识武器的人们……在这里，布迪厄的工作绝非反智主义的，而是基于对知识分子责任的敏锐（也许是虚幻的）认识。“所有在对必然性的认识上的进步，都是潜在的自由的进步”：位于知识生产位置上的知识分子可以用可能使他们对统治效果的抵抗更加自觉、对社会世界的理解更加顺畅的分析工具来武装被剥夺者。——罗杰·夏蒂埃
★布迪厄简明扼要地介绍了他那些对普遍社会理论产生了深远影响的思想和著作……与他的其他著作一样，这本书直击社会科学理论领域的核心要素。它邀请读者一同去探索一种险象环生，但富于人文关怀的、乐观的社会学。——《人类学季刊》
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“……在认识社会世界的规律这件事情上的所有进步，都会提高人们对必然性的认识程度……从而给予人们更多的自由。”就此而言，作为读者，更普遍地说，作为社会大众的一员，了解社会学，了解社会学家如何认识和分析我们自身，便是一项自我解放的事业。
本书是著名社会学家皮埃尔·布迪厄的一本文集，收录了21篇访谈、讲座文稿和会议论文。在本书中，布迪厄不仅用自己的社会学方法和基本概念（场域、惯习、资本、投资等）分析了流行文化的各个领域（体育、文学、时尚、音乐等），还在这些趣味盎然的分析中穿插了他对社会科学的认识论、方法论的哲学反思。
布迪厄力图将自身所学公之于众，展示社会学家的思考和分析历程，带领读者走进社会科学的“后厨”，并且告诫我们：不要认同一种思想，而要成为一种思想方法的主人。

Where is sociology headed? Are intellectuals fading from the scene? What of language and culture? The writings of Pierre Bourdieu have made a profound impact on the direction of sociological thought and general social theory. Pierre Bourdieu's latest work, Sociology in Question, offers an accessible yet challenging introduction to his ideas. In a series of discussions, lectures, and interviews, the range of Bourdieu's ideas is laid out and its relation to other disciplines and other sociological schools is explored. The issues developed include the sociology of culture, leisure and taste, the intrinsic reflexivity of social science, and the role of language in society and the social sciences. Sociology in Question is important reading for students and professionals who want to stay on the cutting edge of contemporary sociology and social theory. "Like his other writings, this book shakes the theoretical field of social science at its core. It invites the reader to explore a risky but fundamentally humanistic and optimistic sociology." --Anthropological Quarterly

《实践理论大纲》是布尔迪厄对于人、社会和文化的理论思考与探索，其田野调查材料来源于50年代的阿尔及利亚 ，通过对当地居民婚姻策略、仪式行为、神话的地位等问题的深入细致考察，布迪厄提出了有关“制度与实践、个人与社会、认识论与谋略、符号与社会场域辩证关系”的基本观点。
实践理论(Theory of Practice)这个概念，是布尔迪厄首先在他的《实践理论大纲》一书中提出的。作者始终在理论—田野—重新构建—阐述理论中不断深入。正如该书的出版者所说的，虽然该书既不能满足那些只对人类科学进行思考而不动手实践的“理论家”，也不能让那些只知埋头实践而不知坐下来思考的“实干家”满意，但对于人类学者和社会学家来说却是非常重要、不可不读的。

Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the principle which negotiates between objective structures and practices, Bourdieu is able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world. The author draws on his fieldwork in Kabylia (Algeria) to illustrate his theoretical propositions. With detailed study of matrimonial strategies and the role of rite and myth, he analyses the dialectical process of the 'incorporation of structures' and the objectification of habitus, whereby social formations tend to reproduce themselves. A rigorous consistent materialist approach lays the foundations for a theory of symbolic capital and, through analysis of the different modes of domination, a theory of symbolic power.