File spoon-archives/bourdieu.archive/bourdieu_1999/bourdieu.9905, message 72


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
>
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