From: "Simon Beesley" <simonb-AT-beesleys.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: Bourdieu and Objectivity Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 09:10:57 +0100 Kent, For the sake of the argument, I will even concede that there may be some sense in talking of habitus as a set of dispositions. Nevertheless, my questions still hold. How do you induce a set of dispositions? How do you transmit a habitus? Surely, in Bourdieu's conception, habitus is a given, a social given. I will go further. I will even concede that it is possible for a system of dispositions to be transmitted and produced. The question now is: How can the Bourdieusian system of dispositions generate the production of scientific truth? Is it the embodied equivalent of scientific method? If so, what is Bourdieu's concept of scientific method? Is it just contingent that this particular set of embodied dispositions happen to lead to the production of scientific truths? What are these dispositions? Could we program a computer to follow them? Doesn't the Bourdieu's conception of scientific method -- now unconscious and embodied -- reduce to the idea of a mechanical system for generating scientific truth? Further still. I will even concede that the Bourdieusian system of dispositions, once transmitted and produced, will lead to the production of scientific truths (by all to whom the system has been transmitted). The questions now are: Were all previous sociological truths the product of this same system? Do other sciences rely on similar systems of dispositions? In what way does the physicist's system of disposition differ from the Bourdieusian system? ... and so on, in the same vein as my two earlier posts on this topic. Regards Simon ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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