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Loïc Wacquant
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 269
Citations - 40832
Loïc Wacquant is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Habitus & Symbolic power. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 259 publications receiving 39028 citations. Previous affiliations of Loïc Wacquant include University of California & University of Chicago.
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An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
Pierre Bourdieu,Loïc Wacquant +1 more
TL;DR: The authors provides a systematic and accessible overview of the internal logic of Bourdieu's work by explicating thematic and methodological principles underlying his work, including a theory of knowledge, practice, and society.
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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
TL;DR: The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy.
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Rethinking the state: Genesis and structure of the bureaucratic field
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the limites de l'independance des sciences sociales vis-a-vis l'Etat, i.e., le risque d'appliquer des categories de pensee produites par lui-meme et de meconnaitre sa verite profonde.
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Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality
TL;DR: Ghetto, Banlieue, Favela et Caetera: Tools for Rethinking Urban Marginality as mentioned in this paper, is a tool for rethinking urban marginality.