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false <![CDATA[The Logic of Practice]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172755100m/212965.jpg 212965 3 <div>Our usual representations of the opposition between the “civilized” and the “primitive” derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object of study is a particular instance of the relationship between knowing and doing, interpreting and using, symbolic mastery and practical mastery—or between logical logic, armed with all the accumulated instruments of objectification, and the universally pre-logical logic of practice. In this, his fullest statement of a theory of practice, Bourdieu both sets out what might be involved in incorporating one’s own standpoint into an investigation and develops his understanding of the powers inherent in the second member of many oppositional pairs—that is, he explicates how the practical concerns of daily life condition the transmission and functioning of social or cultural forms. The first part of the book, “Critique of Theoretical Reason,” covers more general questions, such as the objectivization of the generic relationship between social scientific observers and their objects of study, the need to overcome the gulf between subjectivism and objectivism, the interplay between structure and practice (a phenomenon Bourdieu describes via his concept of the habitus ), the place of the body, the manipulation of time, varieties of symbolic capital, and modes of domination. The second part of the book, “Practical Logics,” develops detailed case studies based on Bourdieu’s ethnographic fieldwork in Algeria. These examples touch on kinship patterns, the social construction of domestic space, social categories of perception and classification, and ritualized actions and exchanges. This book develops in full detail the theoretical positions sketched in Bourdieu’s Outline of a Theory of Practice . It will be especially useful to readers seeking to grasp the subtle concepts central to Bourdieu’s theory, to theorists interested in his points of departure from structuralism (especially fom Lévi-Strauss), and to critics eager to understand what role his theory gives to human agency. It also reveals Bourdieu to be an anthropological theorist of considerable originality and power.</div> 2174364 1990 The Logic of Practice total:48|5:18|4:19|3:10|2:1|1:0| 48 198 78 8 3 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 00:19:29 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 00:35:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri Jul 27 05:11:02 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 05:15:18 -0700 2007 If you really are a genius, you might want to keep in mind that the rest of the world might not...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 18 11:16:13 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 11:19:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jun 10 11:30:15 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 11:30:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 22 09:15:09 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 10:03:41 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 20 03:29:38 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 03:29:38 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Aug 01 14:51:06 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 14:51:29 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Thu Dec 27 15:55:55 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 15:55:55 -0800 2007
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