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Habitus and the Practical Logic of Practice

An Interpretation

Bibliographic Data

ID2321345
AuthorsRaymond W K Lau (Hong Kong Metropolitan University, corresponding author), Raymond Wk Lau
Year2004
Volume38
Issue2
Pages369-387
Publication date2004-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038504040870
OpenAlexW2050937955
LanguageEN
Citations received33
References cited30

Bourdieu confuses himself and others by calling his project a 'transcendence' of the objectivist-subjectivist antinomy. Contrary to claims, Bourdieu's methodology and theoretical premises are directly opposed to phenomenological social constructivism, though he makes use of several key phenomenological concepts. Habitus enriches the objectivist perspective by specifying a partial theory of agency which, contrary to critics, is non-reductionist. Habitus' current formulation and usage brim with inconsistencies and ambiguities. It is non-reflective but not corporeal; it should not be equated to cultural capital; it is specifiable into concrete components instead of being 'difficult to specify empirically'.The concepts of practical logic and doxa are connatural to habitus, but the concept of strategy derives from a different premise and is non-essential to habitus.The above interpretation derives from the critical realist view. An empirical study of China's trade unionists is provided for illustration

Constructivism (international relations · Cultural capital · Doxa · Epistemology · Habitus · Interpretation (philosophy · Lifeworld · Objectivism · Premise · Reductionism · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivism · Critical Realism in Sociology · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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Citations per year1,57
Citation span2005 - 2026 (22)
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