Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 20:59:07 -0700 From: Sarah Busse <busse-AT-cicero.spc.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: Bourdieu's Standards At 07:05 PM 11/21/95 -0500, Jeffrey Feldman wrote: >In his own context, therefore, (Distinction is about France) >Bourdieu couches habitus within a class framework. You must >find the framework--or standards--if you choose to introduce >habitus into a different context. > In my own (admittedly limited) reading of Bourdieu, I understood his class framework of habitus to be universal. If I may take context to mean specific societies, then habitus is based on class in any society. For example, it seems to me that describing the habitus of a particular class is as applicable to American society as to France. There is certainly a trend in American society to deny the existence of "class" as class is perceived in Europe, but Bourdieu's discussion of the intersection of cultural and economic capital is very relevant to American society (among others). His discussion of habitus and class opens many possibilites for research on American society. If however, we take "context" to mean other fields of study, then the concept of habitus might be robust enough to carry over into an abstract plane without the class framework, which would be interesting. ------------------- Sarah Busse Dept of Sociology University of Chicago busse-AT-cicero.spc.uchicago.edu
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