Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 09:28:58 -0600 (CST) From: Quetzil-AT-UH.EDU (Quetzil Castaneda) Subject: wacquant's equation of bourdieu's calculas >On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Diana Ambrozas wrote: >If bourdieu is indeed trying >> to add some sense of agency to structuralist thought, this formulation ( >>PRACTICE= FIELD + HABITUS) does >> not appear to add anything. > > I had the good fortune to participate in a seminar with Wacquant last semester and he put forward the formulation: > > [(habitus + capital) + field] = practice > > Maybe that adds something. > >Hagen Finley >Berkeley, CA Can i ask, what was the suggested use of such an equation? or was it simply to comprehend the supposed relations between these qualities? I guess I am sort of askking, if indeed it is adding SOME THING!?! and what it would be adding to make bourdieuian calculas. sorry if this is old, stale topic. quetzil.
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