ANTHR310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Pierre Bourdieu, Unintended Consequences, Michel De Certeau

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR310
• Professor: Joseph Hill

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A(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s capacity to act, whether to change o(cid:374)e"s own conditions or to change society through resisting a given state of affairs. Some theories of structure (levi-strauss, structural functionalism, althusser, early foucault) left little room for the individual. O(cid:373)e theo(cid:396)ies a(cid:396)ose to e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) the (cid:862)dualit(cid:455) of structure(cid:863) (cid:894)gidde(cid:374)s(cid:895) how it creates individuals but also how they create it as an (cid:862)u(cid:374)i(cid:374)te(cid:374)ded (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) of i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) Bou(cid:396)dieu"s theory of habitus is an example habitus is embodied social structure, though which individuals reproduce larger social structures (but still, agency is limited by structures) O(cid:373)e s(cid:272)hola(cid:396)s ha(cid:448)e d(cid:396)a(cid:449)(cid:374) atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) to e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455)da(cid:455) (cid:862)ta(cid:272)ti(cid:272)s(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)strategies(cid:863) of resistance (michel de ce(cid:396)teau(cid:895), (cid:862)(cid:449)eapo(cid:374)s of (cid:449)eak(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)the a(cid:396)ts of (cid:396)esista(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) Structuralist theory: all so(cid:272)ial phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)a ae (cid:862)t(cid:396)a(cid:374)spositio(cid:374)s(cid:863) of the sa(cid:373)e st(cid:396)u(cid:272)tu(cid:396)es of the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d i(cid:374)to diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)ts. Cognition is based on binary oppositions cultural meaning and social distinctions worldwide derive from the same logical operations.