Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 18:06:35 -0400
From: Yves Gingras <gingras.yves-AT-uqam.ca>
Subject: Re: hysteresis


Peter Gates wrote:
>
>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


The problem come from the translation and the person whio did the index,
for in the French original, hysterisis IS in the index of Distinction. When
I made the suggestion I was supposing that the index of the English version
was as good as the French one. So the best thing would be to find the
occurences in the French version and then find the equivalent page in the
English version.





Yves Gingras
Département d'histoire et
Centre interuniversitaire
de recherche sur la science
et la technologie (CIRST)
UQAM
C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville
Montréal, Québec
Canada, H3C 3P8

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