Description: Outline of a Theory of Practice Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice Format: Paperback Language: English Publisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 9780521291644, 978-0521291644 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.
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Book Title: Outline of a Theory of Practice
Number of Pages: 255 Pages
Publication Name: Outline of a Theory of Practice
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 226 mm
Subject: Sociology
Publication Year: 1977
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 413 g
Author: Pierre Bourdieu
Item Width: 151 mm
Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Format: Paperback
