Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:06:18 +0100
From: "karl.maton" <karl.maton-AT-pop.ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: [BOU:] Where's the agency in agent?


Interesting discussion.... it began with the agency question and we've 
now got to a point of tension in Bourdieu.
Much like Durkheim, Bourdieu seems to hold both quite a strong realist 
epistemology at times AND a strong perspectivism too. It's funny, as an 
aside, to see what different people make of durkheim ... the pavlovian 
response among sociologists trained on secondary texts is to bark 
'positivist', while philosophers of science can be heard to mutter 
'relativist'. Bourdieu seems to balance quite precariously at times 
between developing a strong sociology of knowledge (successfully) and a 
desire (unfulfilled) to institute a realist epistemology.

Just a thought

With best wishes,

Karl

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