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Bourdieu and Jean Baudrillard.

Date Submitted: 11/25/2003 13:50:11
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 2 pages (621 words)
Views: 110825

For Bourdieu, belief and habit are always governed by the social. Bourdieu saw habitus as combining the role of structure (of society) and agency (of the individual) to frame how people come to decide what to do. The internalised norms of the habitus are the result of the subject's exposure to social processes and this ensures that the human subject's habitual modes of thought and action are governed by the social. Further, a person's 'individual …

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…imagination due to places like Disneyland making "reality" appear imaginery. So, I agree with him on the idea that the country is based on its own image. Just like Bourdieu, I think I can relate him to Marx because he is talking about social structures and there is conflict theory. But I think he could also relate to Cooley's looking glass self because the idea of imagination is playing a big part in this reading.

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