Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields. Wikipedia
Born: August 1, 1930, Denguin, France
Died: January 23, 2002 (age 71 years), Paris, France
Influenced by: Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and more
Education: École normale supérieure (1951–1954) and Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Children: Emmanuel Bourdieu
Parents: Albert Bourdieu and Noëmie Duhau
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