File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1996/96-01-02.102, message 150


Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 10:18:05 +1000
From: Vicki Carrington <Vicki.Carrington-AT-jcu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: "BODY"/practice/social agents
To: bourdieu-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu


>From my reading of Bourdieu it is my understanding of class that it should
be seen as a transitory theoretical category which could be applied to any
number of characteristics, rather than to purely economic ones.  This
leaves the way open for application of Bourdieu's sociology to
characteristics such as gender, race and ethnicity -- these and other
characteristics have the potential to form the basis of class
classifications rather than a purely economic positioning within particular
fields.

Vicki Carrington
School of Education
James Cook University.




   

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