David Swartz: 6 books

Book cover of Culture and Power

Culture and Power

The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

by David Swartz
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012

Pierre Bourdieu is one of the world's most important social theorists and is also one of the great empirical researchers in contemporary sociology. However, reading Bourdieu can be difficult for those not familiar with the French cultural context, and until now a comprehensive introduction to Bourdieu's...
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Moral Minority

The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism

by David R. Swartz
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012

In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the Washington Post predicted that the new evangelical...
Book cover of Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals

Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals

The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

by David L. Swartz
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013

Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that...
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Paid

Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff

by Scott Mainwaring, Lisa Servon, Lynn Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017

Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string. Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. But what about the debris, the things...
Book cover of DIY Citizenship

DIY Citizenship

Critical Making and Social Media

by Steve Mann, Kate Milberry, Henry Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014

How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption. Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...
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Cry of the Eagle

Encounters with a Cree Healer

by Grant Ingram, Lisa Swartz, David Young
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990

After a vision in which he beheld himself as a leader in the revitalization of native medicine and culture, medicine man Russell WIllier began to share his healing practices and world view with three anthropologists. In this volume they describe how WIllier treats chronic, stress-related condition...
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