{"product_id":"the-bachelors-ball-the-crisis-of-peasant-society-in-bearn-paperback","title":"The Bachelors' Ball: The Crisis of Peasant Society in Béarn - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePierre Bourdieu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past four decades, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died in 2002, he was considered to be the most influential sociologist in the world and a thinker on a par with Foucault and Lévi-Strauss-a public intellectual as important to his generation as Sartre was to his. Bourdieu's final book, \u003ci\u003eThe Bachelors' Ball\u003c\/i\u003e, sees him return to Béarn, the region where he grew up, to examine the gender dynamics of rural France. This personal connection adds poignancy to Bourdieu's ethnographic account of the way the influence of urban values has precipitated a crisis for male peasants. Tied to the land through inheritance, these bachelors find themselves with little to offer the women of Béarn who, like the young Bourdieu himself, abandon the country for the city in droves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePierre Bourdieu\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2002) was professor of sociology at the Collège de France. He is the author or coauthor of more than twenty works, including \u003ci\u003eDistinction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Homo Academicus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Pascalian Meditations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e On Television\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e State Nobility\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Acts of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Invitation to Reflexive Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eScience of Science and Reflexivity\u003c\/i\u003e, the last two also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42039355703376,"sku":"9780226067506","price":68.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/T3FyRFo3V3gyQU9aRnk2VnJoZHFMZz09.webp?v=1771841482","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bachelors-ball-the-crisis-of-peasant-society-in-bearn-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}