Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Required reading: Bourdieu (1990)
Supplemental readings: Bourdieu (1977), Swartz (2012b), Swartz (2012a)
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. “The Objective Limits of Objectivism.” In Outline of a Theory of Practice, translated by Richard Nice, 1–71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511812507.
———. 1990. “Structures, Habitus, Practices.” In The Logic of Practice, 52–65. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
Swartz, David. 2012a. “Chapter 5: Habitus: A Cultural Theory of Action.” In Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, 95–116. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. http://books.google.com?id=pNcnAgAAQBAJ.
———. 2012b. “Chapter 6: Fields of Struggle for Power.” In Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, 117–42. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. http://books.google.com?id=pNcnAgAAQBAJ.
ANTH 6916: Culture and development—Key concepts
General info: About this seminar, The practice of social theory, Summary of topics and readings, The key tasks of collaborative editing
Seminars: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | B | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
Assignments: Essay, Take-home writing assignment, Weekly reflections, Various contributions to an online, collaborative knowledge base