Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 22:18:15 -0500 (EST)
From: ROBERT LUCIE <robert.lucie-AT-uqam.ca>
Subject: Re: "BODY"/practice/social agents



Maybe you would like to add to the equation the idea of <l'espace des 
possibles>. Jean-Paul Sartre first developped this idea in Questions of 
Method, but Bourdieu has given it a given it a new life (if I may say so) 
in his book Les Regles de l'art (part II, chap. 2). He does not go so far 
as to give the subject a choice (as Sartre did), but it is an interesting 
development.

Lucie Robert
Departement d'etudes litteraires
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
robert.lucie-AT-uqam.ca



On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Diana Ambrozas wrote:

> One thing that i dont' understand about this formula (which is from
> _Distinction_ no?) 
> 
> >Bourdieu's theory. One could even write the equation
> >        PRACTICE= FIELD + HABITUS
> 
> is where social agency is supposed to fit in.  If bourdieu is indeed trying
> to add some sense of agency to structuralist thought, this formulation does
> not appear to add anything.  The only way i can make any sense of bourdieu
> is to think of habitus as constraining but not determining the social agent
> which means you need at least another factor in the equation: 
> practice = field + habitus + (emergent?, relatively autonomous?) choice
> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> Diana Ambrozas                      
> School of Communication, SFU         
> Vancouver         
> 
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