Mission

The "Fondation Pierre Bourdieu - For a European Research-Space in Social Sciences" aims

to further develop and intensify the forms of critical, intervening sociology exemplarily practised by Pierre Bourdieu
to build an international an interdisciplinary network of committed critical social research by providing an internet platform, organising colloquia, and supporting seminal initiatives
to overcome national barriers and cultural filters hindering the free circulation of scientific and intellectual assets
to abolish artificial paradigmatic boundaries and constraints and to integrate quantitative and qualitative, explanatory and comprehending approaches to theory and research in the social sciences
to initiate public discourse on important social issues and political commitment in the tradition of raisons d’agir and exchange between social science research and social movements