From: Ketil Thorgersen <bourdieu-AT-rytmisk.net>
Subject: Re: Habitus of a school (fwd)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:20:03 +0200


tirsdag 15. april 2003, 19:09, skrev Spoon Collective:
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> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:24:17 +0930
> From: Sandra <sandra63-AT-ozemail.com.au>
> To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> Subject: Habitus of a school
>
> I am trying to define the habitus of a school. I have made a list of all of
> the discourses of the school. If the habitus is the practice of the
> discourses is it as simple as rewording the discourses? What am I missing.

Hmm

To define the habitus of a school you'd have to consider it an agent I assume. 
No problem to do that in the Bourdieuan world, but that makes it necessary to 
see it in relation to other schools and agents in the field as well. Why do 
you want to do this if you're not sure what habitus is? The habitus of an 
agent is the combined predispositions from which the agents acts (in the 
broad sense of the word), and as I understands the consept this would include 
the history of the school and the physical abilities, surroundings and 
predispositions as well as in which culture it is situated and its relations 
with it surroundings. 

But I've not even written my PhD thesis yet so I'd be happy for some 
corrections!

Regards
Ketil Thorgersen
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