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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