Category: Sociology of Language

Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities
This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has recently undergone a fundamental transformation characterized by de-industrialization, on the one hand, and, on the other, by the increased exploitation of certain […]
Luc Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre, Catherine Porter (Translator)
Uprooting: The Crisis of Traditional Algriculture in Algeria
Between 1954 and 1960, in the midst of the Algerian War, more than two million Algerian peasants – a quarter of the population – were forcibly resettled. They were removed from their homes and villages and relocated in camps controlled by the French military in what was one of the largest and most brutal displacements […]
Pierre Bourdieu, Abdelmayek Sayad
Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893-2020
Émile Durkheim’s major works are among the founding texts of the discipline of sociology, but his importance lies also in his immense legacy and subsequent influence upon others. In this book, Philip Smith examines not only Durkheim’s original ideas, but also reveals how he inspired more than a century of theoretical innovations, identifying the key […]
Philip Smith