ANTH 303 Anthropological Theory Fall 2019
I acknowledge that St FX is in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People.
Nov.
6: Applying Bourdieu. READ Wiltshire, Gareth, Jessica Lee &
Oli Williams. 2019. Understanding the reproduction of health
inequalities: physical activity, social class and Bourdieu’s habitus,
Sport, Education and Society, 24:3, 226-240, DOI:
10.1080/13573322.2017.1367657
Apply Bourdieu to your anthropological questions.
How do Wiltshire et al. apply Bourdieu to their question?
- note habitus
- class
- financial, social and cultural capital
- field
How do they plan their research around this framework?
- what kinds of populations they seek out and the way they describe them
- the kinds of questions they ask of their research participants
- the ways they analyse what the participants say
Strengths and weaknesses of this analysis?
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