From: heymoira-AT-email.com
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 17:08:54 +0000
Subject: newbies


I would like to thank the newbies for reviving this list.  For a while there, it was close to being moribund.  

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From: Michael Franklin <kennarfl-AT-hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 11:36:33 -0500
To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Subject: question

> Hey list,
> 
> I'm one of those so-called newbies, so treat me tenderly.
> 
> I just finished Distinction and had a question.  In the chapter on culture 
> and politics, Bourdieu discusses a disconnect between class condition and 
> political consciousness (e.g., a working-class guy who is politically 
> conservative and an evangelical Christian).  Mediating this "disconnect" is 
> class interest, but Bourdieu never identifies the principles of assignment 
> that would link a specific class with a specific interest.  The conventional 
> way of defining "interest" is by identifying a social agent's (or class of 
> agents') subjective intentions/beliefs.  Yet, Bourdieu seems to define 
> "interest" objectively, outside the social agent's consciousness, by 
> suggesting that there is a true politics associated with the 
> social/economic condition of the social agent that trumps the false 
> politics associated with myth, religion, nationalism, etc.
> 
> If anyone could point me in the direction of relevant articles/books, I'd 
> appreciate it, especially something that takes into account mass media and 
> PR.
> 
> Thanks much,
> Michael Franklin
> University of MN
> 
> 
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