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A Dialogue on the Ideas of “World” and “Field”

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This article first appeared in Sociologie de l’art in French (Howard S. Beckeret Alain Pessin, “Dialogue sur les notions de Monde et de Champ,” Sociologie de l’art (Nouvelle Série, Opus 8), pp. 165–180. The English translation here is by Howard S. Becker.

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Becker, H.S., Pessin, A. A Dialogue on the Ideas of “World” and “Field”. Sociol Forum 21, 275–286 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11206-006-9018-2

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