Bourdieu, Pierre

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Bourdieu, Pierre, Les regies de I art, Genese et structure du champ litter air e (Paris Seuil, 1992). 

Bourdieu, Pierre. The Rules of Art Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field. Trans. 

Bourdieu, Pierre (1976) Le champ scientifique. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 2/3, 88-104. 

Bourdieu, Pierre (1979) Distinction A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 

Nor is this conflation unwarranted from a sociological point of view. We need only keep in mind Pierre Bourdieu s influential notion of an "intellectual field" composed of individuals, small groups, schools, and disciplines distributed as a network of agents and powers. Fieldlike relationships exist within subfields, which in turn occupy particular regions within the broader intellectual field.22... 

The concept of the "habitus , which can be defined as the set of cultural dispositions informing and underlying the replication of patterns of work, economic exchange, and social interaction, of course derives from Pierre Bourdieu. See P. Bourdieu, Homo Academicus, trans. P. Collier, (Palo Alto, 1988), and id., The Logic of Practice, trans R. Nice (Palo Alto, 1990). 

In the United States, a fractal reflection of the global racial formation (Winant 2001) is observable. Pierre Bourdieu notes, for instance. 

Practice theory is drawn from the work of Pierre Bourdieu (1977), rooted in the disciplines of sociology and anthropology. This approach allows us to focus on individuals and their positions in different institutional contexts for example, how much cultural and symbolic capital they bring with them into engineering. Many students forge important relationships that allow them to gain the social currency, or social capital, necessary to traverse... 

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