SOURCE: Chodos, Howie, and Bruce Curtis. “Pierre Bourdieu's Masculine Domination: A Critique.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 39, no. 4 (November 2002): 397-412.

In the following essay, Chodos and Curtis purport that Bourdieu's concepts in Masculine Domination are limited in their application.

In a marked break with an earlier pessimism about the political potential of academic sociology (Mesney, 2002), Pierre Bourdieu extended his systematic program of social research to an increasingly public involvement with political questions in the decade before his death on 23 January, 2002. He organized and edited a multi-authored volume on the suffering provoked by capitalist globalization. He offered acerbic critiques of Anthony Giddens and the Blairite “third way” in the editorial pages of Le Monde. He denounced American cultural and economic imperialism for imposing its categories on social situations in which they do not apply, thereby distorting social scientific work. He engaged with groups of community activists in many...