Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 16)

Bourdieu, Pierre

ISBN 10: 0521211786 / ISBN 13: 9780521211789

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1977

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Note: Book in NEAR FINE condition. (4) lines of light notes in pencil on the very last page (p.248). 1st inside page blank with 2.5"L x .75" D top of the page cutout (where the name of the previous owner must have been written); otherwise the text is clean and book is tight.

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• Titre: Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 16)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 1977
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521211786
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521211789
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the principle which negotiates between objective structures and practices, Bourdieu is able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world. The author draws on his fieldwork in Kabylia (Algeria) to illustrate his theoretical propositions. With detailed study of matrimonial strategies and the role of rite and myth, he analyses the dialectical process of the 'incorporation of structures' and the objectification of habitus, whereby social formations tend to reproduce themselves. A rigorous consistent materialist approach lays the foundations for a theory of symbolic capital and, through analysis of the different modes of domination, a theory of symbolic power.