Review: Language and Symbolic Power
User Review - Roberta Kang - GoodreadsDifficult and dense but totally worth it. A nice outline of many of Bourdieu's theories with some thought provoking explanations. Read full review
Review: Language and Symbolic Power
User Review - Philippe - GoodreadsAfter seven or eight reads, I am sure most people understand it. Then they get angry with Bourdieu for his Gallic ways. Read full review
Review: Language and Symbolic Power
User Review - Joy Sterrantino - GoodreadsOkay, so I've only read parts of it so far, but it gives a great theoretical framework for understanding language as power. I used this book a ton in a paper I wrote about the power struggle between Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley at the Kenilworth Entertainments. Read full review
Review: Language and Symbolic Power
User Review - Dmitri - GoodreadsBourdieu's best, in my humble opinion. Read "Social Space and the Genesis of Classes" above all else. Read full review
Review: Language and Symbolic Power
User Review - Jerry - GoodreadsHow can one book change so much the way you think about the world? Read it if you're tired of formal linguistics, if you have any interest in the way that language itself is regulated and becomes a way of reproducing class distinction. Love it. Read full review
