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From: "kent strock" <sigmund5-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: SV: Habitus and class(es)
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:09:20 GMT


while seductive I think it doesn't acknowledge the debt of other fields that 
eventually produce these occupations. As an empirical study one could use 
this effectively, but to use it as a basis of the political is naive or 
underestimates the larger field and grants way to much subjectivity over the 
objective...at great risk


>>
>While I agree with Dennis in that Bourdieu writes about "global class
>fractions", as it were, my reading of Bourdieu also includes both global 
>and
>local fractions of other natures that just class. The scheme would also
>include something like the habitus of feminist(s), environmental activists,
>journal editors and others.
>
>Torgeir
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