Are brought to bear on

1. Does "where" in the following text refer to "the European variant that Bourdieu offers"?

2. Does "are brought to bear on" below mean "are considered in relation to"?

Context:

From such a perspective meaning is either bracketed out entirely, as lying outside the competence of the sociologist, or considered as a function or outcome of that social organization which is the sociologist’s proper concern. While this perspective has been particularly dominant in American scholarship, Bourdieu can be said to offer a European variant, where the masters of the grand sociological narrative, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, are brought to bear on the production of value and the consumption of artifacts as forms of social distinction.