Outline of a theory of practice / Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice.

By:

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002 [author]

Contributor(s):

Nice, Richard [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 16Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1977]Copyright date: ©1977Description: viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0521211786
052129164X

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

301.2 20 B.P.O

Online resources:

Abstract

Contents:

The objective limits of objectivism -- Section I: Analyses -- From the mechanics of the model to the dialectic of strategies -- From the "rules" of honour to the sense of honour -- Practice and discourse about practice -- The fallacies of the rule -- Section II: Case study : parallel-cousin marriage -- The state of the question -- The functions of kinship : official kin and practical kin -- Officializing strategies -- Collective beliefs and white lies -- The ordinary and the extra-ordinary -- Matrimonial strategies and social reproduction -- Structures and the habitus -- A false dilemma : mechanism and finalism -- Structures, habitus and practices -- The dialectic of objectification and embodiment -- Generative schemes and practical logic : invention within limits -- The calendar and the synoptic illusion -- Economy of logic -- The body as geometer : cosmogonic practice -- Union and separation -- Thresholds and rites of passage -- Reunion of contraries and denial -- Making use of indeterminacy -- The habitus and homologies -- Structures, habitus, power : basis for a theory of symbolic power -- Doxa, orthodoxy, heterodoxy -- Symbolic capital -- Modes of domination.

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Translation with revisions of Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The objective limits of objectivism --
Section I: Analyses --
From the mechanics of the model to the dialectic of strategies --
From the "rules" of honour to the sense of honour --
Practice and discourse about practice --
The fallacies of the rule --
Section II: Case study : parallel-cousin marriage --
The state of the question --
The functions of kinship : official kin and practical kin --
Officializing strategies --
Collective beliefs and white lies --
The ordinary and the extra-ordinary --
Matrimonial strategies and social reproduction --
Structures and the habitus --
A false dilemma : mechanism and finalism --
Structures, habitus and practices --
The dialectic of objectification and embodiment --
Generative schemes and practical logic : invention within limits --
The calendar and the synoptic illusion --
Economy of logic --
The body as geometer : cosmogonic practice --
Union and separation --
Thresholds and rites of passage --
Reunion of contraries and denial --
Making use of indeterminacy --
The habitus and homologies --
Structures, habitus, power : basis for a theory of symbolic power --
Doxa, orthodoxy, heterodoxy --
Symbolic capital --
Modes of domination.

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Outline of a theory of practice / Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice.