《The Weight of the World》是由法國社會學家皮埃爾·布爾迪厄（Pierre Bourdieu）領銜的22人研究團隊撰寫、史丹福大學出版社出版的社科著作。該書基於三年田野調查，系統記錄了當代工業化社會中因經濟轉型與制度失效導致的群體性生存困境。
研究團隊通過深度訪談呈現了失業鋼鐵工人、郊區移民家庭、工會成員等不同群體遭遇的結構性不平等現象，涵蓋就業危機、種族歧視、城市暴力等多個維度。案例包括被解僱20年的工人依賴失業救濟維生、阿爾及利亞移民在巴黎面臨的系統性排斥等具體場景，揭示社會機制未能保障公民尊嚴的普遍現實。
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780804738453
- 作者：Pierre Bourdieu et al.
- 出版社：Stanford University Press
- 出版時間：2000年1月1日
- 頁數：656
- 定價：USD 22.95
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
Confined in their governmental ivory towers, their actions largely dictated by public opinion polls, politicians and state officials are all too often oblivious to the everyday lives of ordinary citizens. These persons, who often experience so much hardship in their lives, have few ways to make themselves heard and are obliged either to protest outside official frameworks or re...(展開全部) Confined in their governmental ivory towers, their actions largely dictated by public opinion polls, politicians and state officials are all too often oblivious to the everyday lives of ordinary citizens. These persons, who often experience so much hardship in their lives, have few ways to make themselves heard and are obliged either to protest outside official frameworks or remain locked in the silence of their despair. . Under the direction of Pierre Bourdieu, France’s foremost sociologist, a team of 22 researchers spent three years studying and analyzing the new forces of social suffering that characterize contemporary societies—the daily suffering of those denied the means of acquiring a socially dignified existence and of those poorly adjusted to the rapidly changing conditions of their lives. Social workers, teachers, policemen, factory workers, white-collar clerks, farmers, artisans, shopkeepers—no one seems to be immune from the frustrations of today’s life, not to speak of the institutions of the family, work, and education. . The book can be read like a series of short stories, which include: a steel worker who was laid off after 20 years and now struggles to support his family on unemployment benefits and a part-time job; a trade unionist who finds his goals undermined by the changing nature of work; a family from Algeria living in a housing tract on the outskirts of Paris who must cope with pervasive forms of racism; and a schoolteacher confronted with urban violence. Reading these stories enables one to register these people’s lives and the
