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Politicians in the late 1990s often know very little about the ordinary lives of their citizens. Preoccupied with opinion polls, the media and party political struggles, they lose touch with the very people whom they are supposed to represent. On the other hand, for many ordinary people today, the social conditions of their lives are getting worse. They find it increasingly difficult to live and to make ends meet; their neighbourhoods are disintegrating, their opportunities are limited and their view of the future is tinged with hopelessness and despair. While politicians are talking to one another, the voices of ordinary people remain unheard. Working with a group of associates, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu spent three years listening to ordinary people talk about their lives and about the difficulties they face."

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• Translator's Preface
• To The Reader
• The Space of Points of View
• Jonquil Street
• A Displaced Family
• Everyone in a Place of their Own
• The View from the Media
• The Order of Things
• An Integrated Family
• A Bad Investment
• Renovation
• The Last Difference
• Site Effects
• America as Social Dystopia: The Politics of Urban Disintegration
• Inside "The Zone": the Social Art of the Hustler in the American Ghetto
• Homeless in El Barrio
• The Abdication of the State
• An Impossible Mission
• Institutional Bad Faith
• Double Binds
• The View from the State
• 'Costs' and 'Benefits' of Immigration
• Disorder Amongst Agents of Order
• Woman and Cop
• A Living Reproach
• On the Way Down
• Permanent and Temporary Workers
• The Old Worker and the New Plant
• The Temp's Dream
• Working Nights
• Possession
• The End of a World
• The Shop Steward's World in Disarray
• The Stolen Work
• A Silent Witness
• Such a Fragile Equilibrium
• Hanging by a Thread
• A Life Wasted
• On the Way Down
• Broken Careers
• Outcasts on the Inside
• Those Were the Days
• Paradise Lost
• Cogs in the Machine
• A Double Life
• French Class
• The Upper Hand
• Institutional Violence
• The Contradictions of Inheritance
• Academic Destiny
• A Compromising Success
• The Spirit of Contradiction
• Wife and Collaborator
• The Curse
• Emancipation
• The Sick Person as Object
• Solitude
• Understanding
• Postscriptum
• Glossary