Homo Academicus

A classic Bourdieu text, much cited and discussed, leading me to take a look when the other Bourdieu texts were checked out.

Overview

 * The indispensable Sociologist and Social Theorist Pierre Bourdieu turns his methods on his own society - the life of the academic. With a mixed of deep statistical analysis (primarily of French academics) and using his theory of "cultural capital" Bourdieu assesses the logics of the world of academia.

Bibliographic Deets
Bourdieu, P, 1988, Homo Academicus, Polity Press, Cambridge.

Preface to the English Edition

 * "My sociological analysis of the academic world tries to trap Homo Academicus, supreme classifier among classifiers, in the net of his own classifications" (xi)

From At Cambridge