PART ONE: INTERPRETATIVE STUDIES/Situating Bourdieu/Cultural Theory and Sociological Perspectives/Bourdieu's Cultural Theory/Bourdieu Postmodernism Modernity/The Historical Genesis of Bourdieu's Cultural Theory/PART TWO: CRITICAL INVESTIGATIONS/Bourdieu and Modern Art/The Case of Impressionism/The Popular and the Middlebrow/Bourdieu the Popular and the Periphery/Conclusion