ANTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Pierre Bourdieu, Grammar, Jargon
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Agency and structure: language and power at work. Work - worldview - habits, are shaped here. Talk, tools, and interaction with others are primary shapes of our worldview and habitus. Habitus: from pierre bourdieu related to our habits but encompassed our perspectives on the correct ways to behave and perception of what happens around us, shaped by current events but relies on past experience. Ex 1: putting language to good use in healthcare. A medical care challenge - patients often arrive with more than one concern", at outset patients typically bring up just one concern, physicians anything else" questions often come late, patients leave with unmet concerns". Acute care visit structure: studied by bird and long in 1976. Greeting - problem presentation - data gathering - diagnosis - treatment - closing. A possible solution: train doctors to solicit additional concerns, etc. Polarity: a phrase can have positive or negative based on key word choices which carry positive or negative polarity.
