Bourdieu Flashcards

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Objectivism and subjectivism

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We understand and construct a vision of our world (subjectivism) but that takes place within structures (objectivism)

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Field

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A structure of positions and relationships of these positions organized around types of capital – an arena of struggle

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Habitus

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Embodied history, the ways we think, act, and feel, creates a range of possibilities for us forms from this habitus history, where we are rooted.

It pre-disposes us but does not pre-determine us.

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Hexis

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The physical manifestation of our habitus, i.e the way we dress, walk, etc.

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Habitus Cleavé

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A transformation one goes through, discomfort, imposter syndrome, etc. i.e. an immigration experience

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Three kinds of capital

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Bourdieu

Social capital - networks

Cultural capital - institutions and resources, knowledge sets and understandings based on circumstance and culture

Economic capital - money

Symbolic capital - manifests in reputation, signaling

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Doxa/doxic attitude

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The rules of the game, ideologies, rules of the field etc. – by participating in the field, we become bearers of a doxic attitude

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Symbolic power

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A way of understanding how power is projected

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Panofsky

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Scientific capitalism - symbolic capital within the sciences

Production of knowledge as a process for the production of symbolic capital and symbolic power

Academia is organized in the pursuit of cultural and symbolic value which will hopefully be translated into your economic value

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