hit in Paris. Its very title stressed how much of a politically engaged intellectual Bourdieu was, taking on the mantle of Émile Zola and Jean-Paul Sartre in French public life and slugging it out with politicians because he thought that was what people like him should do." For Bourdieu, sociology was a combative effort that sought to expose the un-thought structures that lie beneath the physical (somatic) and thought practices of social agents. He saw sociology as a means of confronting symbolic violence and of exposing those unseen areas in which one could be free. Bourdieu's work continues to be influential. His work is widely cited, and many sociologists and other social scientists work explicitly in a Bourdieusian framework. One example is Loïc Wacquant, who persistently applies the Bourdieusian theoretical and methodological principles to subjects such as boxing, employing what Bourdieu termed participant objectivation (objectivation participante), or what Wacquant calls "carnal sociology." In addition to publishing a book on Bourdieu's lasting influence, novelist Édouard Louis uses the legacy of Pierre Bourdieu as a literary device. Bourdieu also played a crucial role in the popularisation of correspondence analysis and particularly multiple correspondence analysis. Bourdieu held that these geometric techniques of data analysis are, like his sociology, inherently relational. "I use Correspondence Analysis very much, because I think that it is essentially a relational procedure whose philosophy fully expresses what in my view constitutes social reality. It is a procedure that 'thinks' in relations, as I try to do it with the concept of field," Bourdieu said, in the preface to The Craft of Sociology. Selected publications See also Academic capital Collective narcissism Cultural capital Erotic capital Social capital Structure and agency Symbolic capital Taste (sociology) Constructivist epistemology References Notes Citations Further reading Corchia, Luca (2006). "La prospettiva relazionale di Pierre Bourdieu (2). I concetti fondamentali." Il Trimestrale del Laboratorio [The Lab's Quarterly] 4. Pisa: Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali. . External links Information on Pierre Bourdieu (life, academia, and influence) — edited by Albert Benschop (University of Amsterdam) 1930 births 2002 deaths 20th-century anthropologists 20th-century essayists 20th-century French essayists 20th-century French non-fiction writers 20th-century French philosophers 21st-century anthropologists 21st-century essayists 21st-century French essayists 21st-century French non-fiction writers 21st-century French philosophers Anti-globalization writers Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Academic staff of the Collège de France Continental philosophers Critical theorists Cultural anthropologists École Normale Supérieure alumni Economic sociologists Epistemologists French anthropologists French anti-capitalists French