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Born Aug 1, 1930 · Denguin, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Awards: CNRS Gold medal, Ernst Bloch Award, Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin, Lysenko Prize, honorary doctor of the University of Athens, Huxley Memorial Medal, honorary doctorate of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, honorary doctorate
Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence…