Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:42:41 +0000
From: Peter Gates <peter.gates-AT-nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: hysteresis


Hi

some while ago I asked a question for information on where Pierre Bourdieu
had used the concept of hysteresis. 

I got some responses suggesting I look at the index of Homo Academicus and
Distinction.

I did that but couldn't find "hysteresis"in either. Am I going mad? Have I
got it wrong? Hysteresis does not appear in the index of Harker et. al.'s
book either.

The notion of changes in the habitus does seem to me to be important -
especially in relation to how influences, pressures and changes in external
structures and discourses and in the field  can have an effect upon not
just on practices, but also on habitus.  Isn't this process and
inter-relationship akin to Gidden's structuration theory - but at a much
more empirical and practical level?

Peter



Best wishes,
Peter

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