Tag Archives: Bourdieu

Habitus and Discourse

This is the second of my blogs on Bourdieu and aims to try and make sense of the concept of habitus. There has been an incredible amount written about habitus, and the general view is that it can pretty much mean whatever you want it to mean in any specific context. That is probably unfair,Continue reading “Habitus and Discourse”

Constructing and Controlling Common Sense

This is the first of what I hope will be a series of blogs that comes from my reading of Pierre Bourdieu. Others will deal more explicitly with some of his key themes. In this first blog, however, I want to address what he offers as a kind of throw away remark. A remark thatContinue reading “Constructing and Controlling Common Sense”