From: "Steffen Albrecht" <steffen_albrecht-AT-public.uni-hamburg.de>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:27:52 +0100
Subject: Re: theatre


For all those interested in Bourdieu's theory and the theater, there 
are some very interesting passages in a 1980 article by Bourdieu: 
"The production of belief: contribution to an economy of symbolic 
goods" (Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 2, 261-293, also in Actes 
de la recherche... Vol. 13/1977, 3-43). Bourdieu analyzes the 
intellectual field by drawing on the example of theatres in Paris, 
which in his view are positioned in an opposition between bourgeios 
and avant-garde. He is not doing any own empirical research, but is 
citing some french studies on audiences.

Steffen

P.S.: Ted, Kent, I don't see how giving such a reference would 
hinder someone to read Distinction or Logic of Practice, in fact, the 
questions arising in the process of reading the study probably will 
force one to go deeper.
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