Pierre Bourdieu | Biography, Theories, Works, & Facts ...
Pierre Bourdieu, (born August 1, 1930, Denguin, France—died January 23, 2002, Paris), French sociologist who was a public intellectual in the tradition of Émile Zola and Jean-Paul Sartre.Bourdieu’s concept of habitus (socially acquired dispositions) was influential in recent postmodernist humanities and social sciences.. Bourdieu was born into a working-class family in southern France.