Bourdieu Vs. France

Bourdieu's examples in this essay come mostly (though not exclusively) from France, but his perspective transcends the specificity of any individual legal system. He intends his investigation to be a case study of a larger system, and of a broad series of patterns in the "juridical field" in general. Not surprisingly, Bourdieu takes the law to be a constitutive force in modern liberal societies. Thus, many of his perceptions and conclusions concerning how the law functions within such societies apply as well to the United States as to France.
Bourdieu's essay considers the "world of the law" from several related points of view: the conceptions that professionals working within the legal world have of their own activity; the mechanisms by which