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Pierre Bourdieu · 1977
A foundational work in anthropology and sociology that develops a theory of practice through ethnographic study of Kabyle society, arguing against both objectivism and subjectivism by introducing the concept of habitus as the principle generating social practices and representations.
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What this book knows
Social life is reproduced through the body: dispositions inscribed in flesh and habit silently generate practice without conscious rule-following.
embodiment
the principle is nothing other than the socially informed body, with its tastes and distastes, its compulsions and repulsions, with all its senses
OTP-RC-154symbolic manipulations of body experience tend to impose the integration of the body space with cosmic space through the division of sexual work
OTP-RC-033neither the formation nor the application of a concept requires conscious recognition — the dialectic of objectification and incorporation gives rise to systematic dispositions
OTP-RC-028obedience-and-authority
the sense of honour is a cultivated disposition inscribed in the body schema enabling each agent to engender practices consistent with the logic of challenge and riposte
OTP-RC-276ambition-and-status
it is all a question of style — timing and choice of occasion — for the same act can have completely different meanings at different times
OTP-RC-264economic capital can be accumulated only in the form of symbolic capital, the unrecognizable, and hence socially recognizable, form of the other kinds of capital
OTP-RC-089Illuminates
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