Elizabeth Silva is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is a member of the project team of Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion (CCSE) and of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). She has published various sole authored and co-authored articles using CCSE material. Her editing experience includes 4 books and 3 special editions of scholarly journals. Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the project team of Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion and has authored and co-authored several articles using its data. His editing experience includes 8 books and 3 special editions of scholarly journals.
'...boasts an impressive gathering of celebrated (UK, US and French) names, explicitly juxtaposes their clashing claims on Bourdieu's long-term legacy and thus...neatly encapsulates the current scrimmage in sociology.'-Will Atkinson, University of Bristol in Sociology, vol 46 no 1 'This collection of essays, which illustrates a wide range of opinion concerning Bourdieu's work, is very interesting... Their book shows very concretely and convincingly that a more international and a more strictly scientific discussion is now possible.'- Julien Duval, Centre europeen de sociologie et de science politique