Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 16:47:27 -0500
From: Mitch Wilson <lobster-AT-mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: RE: Habitus as process ...


>Exactly, the logic .., the historically constructed logic/legitimating
>principle as Bourdieu calls it in Homo Academicus ...

Eureka! Many thanks, Ingo and Emilio, for your help.

Now I have a footing to continue--habitus is the "historically constructed
logic/legimating principle" of . . . what? Is it of: one's perspective as a
professional; one's tastes as an individual; one's ideology as a member of
culture; one's intuitions as an engendered being of a certain age and
social class; etc? Does habitus account for the production of all such
cultural, societal, and psychological phenomena?

Emilio has already provided examples--"teachers who belive in natural
intelligence vs. teachers who belive in effort." So let's focus on those.

Am I correct, Emilio, in saying that you're using the concept of habitus to
look at the professional relationship between teacher and
student-as-subject? If so, then may I ask how the concept habitus assists
you in analyzing those relationships? (I'd like to understand your use of
habitus as a concept in a particular methodology.)

sincerely,
mitch



>
>>specific habitus. I thing that we can find some indicatins in La
>>distinction. We can analyse the strucdture of the habitus by the way of
>>predispositions like preference for the formal vs. preferences for the
>>functional. In my researchs about the teacher's habitus I used polar
>>oppositions as a kind of structure for tu explain differents practices and
>>choices... An other exemples: teachers who belive in natural intelligence
>>vs. teachers who belive in effort,  etc. etc.
>
>Excellent. Could you send me a reference, if you have some in English? (I
>have a reference to my work below on my homepage; please find
>http://rvik.ismennt.is/~ingo/TEAWORK.HTM. I also have a long publication in
>Spanish that I might have promoted here before from my work ... in Revista
>de Educacion from 1991.
>
>Ingo
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