From: "kent strock" <sigmund5-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Empathy as a logic of practice Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:40:28 PDT Deborah, I second Karl's encouragement! you go academic :-) > > > > as i've mentioned before on this list, i'm looking at an educational > > intervention that was conducted in a women's prison. i had originally > > thought, "now i'll discuss the field, now i'll discuss habitus, etc." > > but the data just couldn't be viewed in that way. > >That's probably because they are interdefined. So you were not going down >the wrong path to find this difficult to do. They are meant to be >understood and used in relation to one another. >(Kent is, I think, right regarding the piecemeal adoption of aspects of >Bourdieu's framework. There is a tendency to cherry-pick and a lack of >time to read and think which encourages this.) > > > so, instead of splitting things up and saying, "here is stuff about the > > field, here is stuff about the habitus, here is stuff about capital" i > > tried to trace one aspect of logic as it is played out in the field, > > internalized in the habitus, and contributes to social reproduction. if > > you've read this far, i thank you very much. i'm in the very last > > stages of my dissertation writing and i'm really wondering if i'm > > totally wacky. my committee members are not huge bourdieu scholars and > > just have to take me at my word most of the time. > >Must dash .. but aquick word to say 'don't worry' - you don't seem wacky >to me. > >With best wishes, > >Karl > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Karl Maton >School of Education, University of Cambridge >17 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England CB2 1QA > Tel. + 44 (0) 1223 336288 > Fax: + 44 (0) 1223 332894 >Email: kam13-AT-cam.ac.uk >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >'Sick down to my heart ... but that's just the way it goes' > >********************************************************************** >Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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