Book

The Logic of Practice

Pierre Bourdieu · 1990

A foundational work in sociology and anthropology that develops Bourdieu's theory of practice, habitus, and symbolic capital through critique of theoretical reason and analysis of practical logics in Kabyle society. The work reconciles scientific and ethical intentions in social research, drawing on structural methodology to understand ritual, kinship, and social reproduction.

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What this book knows

Social life runs on embodied dispositions—habitus—that reproduce class and gender order below the threshold of conscious intention.

Sex: Present
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Present

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practices objectively harmonized without any calculation or conscious reference to a norm and mutually adjusted in the absence of any direct interaction
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a man of honour must eat neither too quickly, with greed or gluttony, nor too slowly—either way is a concession to nature
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the division of sexual labour… is the basis of the division of the world, the most solidly established of all collective—that is, objective—illusions
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symbolic violence, gentle, invisible violence, unrecognized as such, chosen as much as undergone, that of trust, obligation, personal loyalty, hospitality, gifts
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the motor of the whole dialectic of challenge and riposte, gift and counter-gift, is not an abstract axiomatic
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drawing up a comprehensive balance-sheet of symbolic profits… to grasp the economic rationality of conduct which economism dismisses as absurd
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