Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 10:55:08 -0600 (CST)
From: Eleanor Townsley <townsley-AT-ruf.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Re




On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Marc Deneire wrote:

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> On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, John Hollister wrote:
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> > When I read B and W's Intro to Reflexive Sociology, it made the most
> > sense when I misunderstood 'fields' as specific locations, occupying
> > a particular space and time, engaging specific bodies and selves, and
> 
> I do not believe that P.B. has such an essentialist notion of "field". I 
> remember a TV interview in which he insisted on the fact that fields are 
> changing all the time, new fields are being created and existing fields 
> are changing and/or disappearing.  Remember the influence of Goffman and 
> Wittgenstein on B
> 
> 
Aren't fields analytical constructs (Ch. 1 Homo Academicus)? Or do they 
relate to real underlying structures? My line is Bourdieu is preety 
ambiguous on this over time (correct me if I'm wrong) but more recent 
work conforms to the former rather than the latter.

ET.