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Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 11:29:07 -0700
From: Patrick Crosby <pcrosby-AT-ieee.org>
Subject: Re: question +WAY too many posts


I'd like to be treated a lot more "tenderly" too, with a lot few posts. Right
now, they're running some 30/day. As a result, I'm hardly reading any of them.
And the few I do make me shake my head in amazement: Evangelical Christians? in
France? Bourdieu talks about that???
Over the last few years, it hasn't been this way. I really hate to unsubscribe
from this list, but I may have to. To one who made the post I'm here (randomly)
responding to: the book you should read is called Distinction. But read it, this
time, with the realization that the author is French, and basically sees France
(rightly or wrongly, for better or for worse) ) as a microcosm for the whole
world. Realize also that the likes of Franklin Graham and Rev. Foul Well  are
symptoms of a social disease that thus far has been largely confined to America.
Let us hope that the "viruses" which cause this disease (corporate monopoly
ownership of both the US communication mass media and the U.S. government
itself, plus a deliberately sabotaged public educational system) can be confined
to U.S. Borders.

Michael Franklin wrote:

> 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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