Bourdieu

Question 1

What does Bourdieu ask?

Answer 1

Why do people do the things they do? How is it that things happen the way that they do and not otherwise? What are the principles at work?

Question 2

What are Bourdieus 3 main concepts?

Answer 2

1. Habitus 2. Capital 3. Field these 3 together produce practices

Question 3

What is capital?

Answer 3

The resources and assets we possess. Form of exchange which is not only economic. Involves different kinds of assets that actors can exchange within fields of practice (education). Assests not only material or economic; can be symbolic (values, tastes, lifestyles, abilities)

Question 4

What is habits?

Answer 4

the predispostions we inherit from our childhood experiences

Question 5

What is field?

Answer 5

The social space in which we do or say things. The field is the means by which capital is distributed. Unequal social contexts and institutions in which we operate

Question 6

How do we choose what we do in our leisure time?

Answer 6

Not individual choices, expressions of our habitus and capital

Question 7

What is honour according to Bourdieu?

Answer 7

Group values in action