The best critical overview is Jenkins (1992) it is literally titled Pierre Bourdieu/similar. This will give you a great, coherent overview and introduce you to many of the key debates, etc.
Additionally, Michael Greenfell’s Key Concepts is very useful, concise and also aware of key debates – it is very sensitively written regarding these.
Particularly when starting off (not sure how new you are to him) I would not recommend going to Bourdieu’s own publications – for one, he can be obtuse, and for two, there are so many good overviews that it becomes unnecessary to subject yourself (!)
In essence, much of what he says is relatively “covered ground”: people learn in the family how to behave/think/feel, and they’re resistant to that changing in any grand way. His contribution really seems to be in escaping the power/agency and objectivist/subjectivist divides – or at least, trying.
I can recommend more useful titles/literature if you are interested in something of his work in particular, but for feeling out the territory these two are a really good place to start.
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