Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:45:13 -0600
From: Deborah Kilgore <kilgore-AT-unix.tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: hysteresis


Hi, Peter.  Hysteresis is described briefly on pg. 130 of Invitation to
Reflexive Sociology.  Rather than a lag, as you discussed in your first
post, I think it is more where the habitus is so out of sync with the
field, that individuals practice in a way that seems to make no sense on
the surface, but would make more sense if we knew the genesis of their
habitus.  What do you think?

I knew I read about this somewhere!

Debbie

Peter Gates wrote:
> 
> 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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