From: "Simon Beesley" <simonb-AT-beesleys.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Bourdieu and Objectivity
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:45:53 +0100


Kent,

I think the argument so far rests on a equivocation in the term "habitus". If by
habitus, you mean something like a form of life, a social context, a set of
practices, then I agree with you: of course there are scientific habitus. But
this is not at all the same thing as explaining scientific practice in terms of
a set of dispositions. Habitus as dispositional is quite a different matter.

Regards
Simon



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