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Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action
Practical Reason On the Theory of Action Author:Pierre Bourdieu In this volume Pierre Bourdieu--one of the foremost social thinkers of our time--clarifies and elaborates the most fundamental characteristics of his theoretical approach. — Bourdieu's theory is both a relational philosophy of science dedicated to revealing the objective relations which shape and underpin social life, and a philosophy of acti... more »on which takes account of agents' dispositions as well as the structured situations in which they act. This philosophy of action is condensed in a small number of key concepts --habitus, field, capital--and it is defined by the two-way relationship between the objective structures of social fields and the incorporated structures of the habitus.
The key concepts and assumptions of Bourdieu's approach are exemplified in this volume through a variety of concrete analyses, from a discussion of the formation of the modern state to an account of the family as a site of socila reproduction, from an analysis of the economy of symbolic goods to a reflection on the social conditions of political morality.« less