SOURCE: Ghasarian, Christian. Review of Sociology in Question, by Pierre Bourdieu. Anthropological Quarterly 68, no. 1 (January 1995): 67-8.

In the following review, Ghasarian summarizes the issues explored by Bourdieu in Sociology in Question, lauding the work for explaining some significant ideas regarding social theory.

Social scientists must know the conditions of their productions. They must keep in mind that the relationship between subject and object is socially determined. Intellectuals' responsibility toward the social world sustains Pierre Bourdieu's reflection in this book [Sociology in Question]. Through a series of lectures and interviews addressed to non-specialists, he explores the relation between sociology (as he sees it) and other disciplines. The issues developed include the sociology of culture and taste (music, sport, haute couture, art), as well as the role of language in society and social sciences. In twenty-one short chapters, at the end of each of which he gives a list of...