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  2. Practice theory - Wikipedia

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    Practice theory (or praxeology, theory of social practices) is a body of social theory within anthropology and sociology that explains society and culture as the result of structure and individual agency. Practice theory emerged in the late 20th century and was first outlined in the work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.

  3. Symbolic power - Wikipedia

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    The idea that one could possess symbolic capital in addition and set apart from financial capital played a critical role in Bourdieu's analysis of hierarchies of power. For example, in the process of reciprocal gift exchange in the Kabyle society of Algeria , when there is an asymmetry in wealth between the two parties, the better-endowed giver ...

  4. Pierre Bourdieu - Wikipedia

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    Pierre Bourdieu was born in Denguin (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), in southern France, to a postal worker and his wife.The household spoke Béarnese, a Gascon dialect. In 1962, Bourdieu married Marie-Claire Brizard, and the couple would go on to have three sons, Jérôme, Emmanuel, and Laurent.

  5. Cultural reproduction - Wikipedia

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    Cultural reproduction, a concept first developed by French sociologist and cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu, [1] [2] is the mechanisms by which existing cultural forms, values, practices, and shared understandings (i.e., norms) are transmitted from generation to generation, thereby sustaining the continuity of cultural experience across time.

  6. Habitus (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    The sociologist Pierre Bourdieu said that the habitus consists of the hexis, a person's carriage and speech , and the mental habits of perception, classification, appreciation, feeling, and action. [2] [3] The habitus allows the individual person to consider and resolve problems based upon gut feeling and intuition. This way of living (social ...

  7. Structure and agency - Wikipedia

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    Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) was a French theorist who presented his theory of practice on the dichotomic understanding of the relation between agency and structure in a great number of publications, beginning with An Outline of the Theory of Practice in 1972, where he presented the concept of habitus.

  8. Field theory (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Much of Bourdieu's work observes the semi-independent role of educational and cultural resources in the expression of agency. This makes his work amenable to liberal-conservative scholarship positing the fundamental cleavages of society as amongst disorderly factions of the working class, in need of disciplinary intervention where they have ...

  9. Sociology of culture - Wikipedia

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    French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's influential model of society and social relations has its roots in Marxist theories of class and conflict. Bourdieu characterizes social relations in the context of what he calls the field , defined as a competitive system of social relations functioning according to its own specific logic or rules.