Classification Struggles: General Sociology, Volume 1 (1981-1982)

This is the first of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title "General Sociology". In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline, and in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts which have come to define his distinctive intellectual approach.

In this first volume, Bourdieu focuses on the fundamental social processes of naming and classifying the ...