Description
| Product ID: | 9780745615936 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Weight of the World |
| Subtitle: | Social Suffering in Contemporary Society |
| Authors: | Author: Pierre Bourdieu |
| Page Count: | 656 |
| Subjects: | Poverty and precarity, Poverty & unemployment, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A major new work by Pierre Bourdieu and his associates: Bourdieu is one of the leading sociologists in the world today. This book documents the accounts of ordinary people as they struggle to survive and to make ends meet, describing the forms of social suffering, hopelessness and despair which are pervasive features of life on the margins. |
| Imprint Name: | Polity Press |
| Publisher Name: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1999-12-30 |
