Habitus and Field av Pierre (College de France) Bourdieu

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<p>This is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Coll¿ de France in the early 1980s under the title ''General Sociology''. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline, and in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts which have come to define his distinctive intellectual approach.</p><p>In this volume, Bourdieu focuses on two of his most important and influential concepts: habitus and field. For the social scientist, the object of study is neither the individual nor the group but the relation between these two manifestations of the social in bodies and in things: that is, the obscure, dual relation between the habitus ¿ as a system of schemas of perception, appreciation and action ¿ and the field as a system of objective relations and a space of possible actions and struggles aimed at preserving or transforming the field. The relation between the habitus and the field is a t