<p>Notes</p>Editor’s Introduction
1 Born in 1930 in BCarn. a province in southern France, Bourdieu studied philosophy at the Ecole normule superieure in Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s, before moving into anthropological and sociological research. His first studies of Algerian society, where he carried out his initial ethnographic research, were published in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The research in Algeria formed Ihe basis of much of his subsequent theoretical writing, most notably Outline of a Theory of Practice, tr. R. Nice (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1977) and The Logic of Practice, tr, R. Nice (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990). In the early 1960s Bourdieu also initiated a series of collaborative research projects on French culture and education, from his institutional base at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris, where he founded the Centre de Sociologie europeenne These projects have resulted in numerous publications, among the most recent of which arc Distinction; A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. U. R. Nice (Cambridge, Mass.; Harvard University Press. 1984), Homo AcademL cus. tr P. Collier (Cambridge: Polity Press. 1988). and La noblesse d'etat: grandes ecoles et esprit de corps (Paris: Minuil, 1989).
Bourdieu is currently Professor of Sociology at the College de Erance and Director of the Centre de sociologie europeenne. For a full bibliography of his writings, see Y. Delsaut, "Bibliography of the works of Pierre Bourdieu. 1958-1988\ in P. Bourdieu. In Other Words; Essays toward a Reflexive Sociology, tr. M. Adamson (Cambridge: Polity Press. 1990), pp. 199-218.
2 For helpful overviews and sympathetic criticism of Bourdieu's work, sec R. Brubaker. "Rethinking classical social theory: the sociological vision of Pierre Bourdieu’, Theory and Society. 14 (1985). pp. 745-75; P. Dimaggio. Review essay on Pierre Bourdieu'. American Journal of
Sociology, 84 (1979), pp. 1460-74; N. Gamham and R. Williams. ‘Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of culture: An introduction'. Media, Culture and Society, 2 (1980). pp. 209-23; and A, Honneth, ‘The fragmented world of symbolic forms: reflections on Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture', tr. T. Talbot, Theory. Culture and Society. 3/3 (1986). pp. 55-66. See also (he volume of essays edited by C. Calhoun, E. LiPuma and M. Postone. The Social Theory of Pierre Bourdieu (Cambridge: Polity Press, forthcoming).
3 See P. Bourdieu. CVlibat et condition pavsanne’. Etudes rurales, 5-6 (1962). pp. 32-136; ‘Marriage strategics as strategies of social repro-duction\ tr. E. Forster* in R Forster and O* Ranum (eds)t Family and Society: Selections from the Annales (Baltimore* MD: Johns Hopkins University Press* 1976), pp. 117—H; and The Kabyle house or the world reversed*, tr. R Nice, published as the appendix in The Logic of Practice.
4 See Bourdieus illuminating account of his own intellectual itinerary in the preface to The Logic of Practice.
5 F. de Saussure. Course in General Linguistics, tr. W* Baskin (Glasgow: Collins, 1974). pp* W; N, Chomsky* Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (Cambridge, Mass,: MIT Press. 1965), pp* 3ff,
6 There is a growing literature on the development of languages in relation to the formation of modern nation-states and the history of colonialism. See* for instance, M. de Certeau. D. Julia and J. Revel. Une politique de la langue. La revolution franfaise et les patois (Paris: Gallimard. 1975); A. Mazrui, The Political Sociology of rhe English Language: An African Perspective (I he Hague: Mouton, 1975); R, L, Cooper (ed ). Language Spread: Studies in Diffusion and Social Change (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982); and J* Stein* berg, ‘The historian and the questtone della lingua', in P. Burke and R. Porter (eds), The Social History of Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp* 19 8-209.
7 F. Bru not* Histoire de la langue fran^utse da origines 6 nos jours (Paris: Armand Colin. 1905-53).
