Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:48:06 -0500
From: Deborah Kilgore <kilgore-AT-unix.tamu.edu>
Subject: RE: Sociology or epistemology?And games.


being new here and relatively new to bourdieu, i'm full of questions.
wouldn't bourdieu say that in fact, given our historical placement, habitus
and position in a field that has a definite character, we have relatively
limited numbers of possible outcomes? 

>On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Kent Lofgren wrote:
>
>> >that games are truly bounded but thinking of them as games implies
>> >boundary.
>> 
>> You mean like, for instance, chess has a couple of defined outcomes (Win,
>> loss, draw etc.)? Whereas we in life have un-limited numbers of possible
>> outcomes.

- deb



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