Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 15:13:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brent E Whitted <whitted-AT-interchange.ubc.ca>



Discussions like this begin to irritate me when they manifest the
disinclination of most contributors to explain how the standards against
which they judge "Bourdieu"--his research, ideas, his position in the
French academic field--relate to the derivation of "Bourdieusian"
principles in their own historically-contingent research.

Bourdieu is clear in his claim that his concepts of field relations and
the convertibility of kinds of capital necessarily derive from his own
research of specific cultures and cultural productions. It would seem that
some specific explanations of the research from which the 'positions'
represented in this virtual arena of debate derive might yield the more
specific understandings of cultures past and present for which we, I
think, seem to yearn. It seems that such explanations are being left by
the wayside.


Brent Whitted
#803-2233 Allison Rd.
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1T7
(604) 224-0455

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