The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power

Examining in detail the work of consecration carried out by elite education systems, Bourdieu analyzes the distinctive forms of power-political, intellectual, bureaucratic, and economic-by means of which contemporary societies are governed.

Author: Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 02/01/1998
Pages: 504
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.87w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780804733465

About the Author
Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France. Stanford University Press has published nine other books by Bourdieu, most recently The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (1996).