Date: 	Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:44:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Henrik Juhana Hyypp{ <henhyy-AT-utu.fi>
Subject: Re: wacquant's equation of bourdieu's calculas


On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Quetzil Castaneda wrote:

> 
> >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.
> 

S. Ahola has written about this problem (and explained it) couple of weeks 
ago, but still: see Bourdieu 1984 (Distinction), page 101.
There is the same equation briefly explained. Pure Bourdieu, no extracts.

Henrik H.