Field theory

Field

A place of focus and habituated action that shape social positions.

Position

Your place on the field, within a social structure, that influences what you do and think.

Disposition

tendencies to take on a \position in any field

• Your location on the field likely aligns with orientation to the field and how you think

Doxa

Unquestioned beliefs/rules within a society that operate to be taken for granted/misrecognize the field of power and maintains social inequalities.

Nomos

The principle division within any field

• the organizing rules of diviision

Homology

Likeness - Association in positions across different fields

"Art for Art's Sake"

Making art as an investment in cultural capital, not for economic gain.

"Interest in Disinterestedness/Loser Wins"

Showing disinterest in economic gain when making art/gaining cultural capital.

• signifies artistically pure inetntions

"Autonomous Pole" and "Heteronomous Pole"

Pursuing activities for intrinsic values, having autonomy from other fields vs. external motivations and influence beyond your field ( economic gain)

Limitations of Field Theory

• Too many fields

• Borders- difficulty finding where field effects stop

• inter-field connections

• limited focus on field change- Bourdieu only really focuses on reproductive aspects of fields

Fields as sports field

Known rules, positions, and boundaries.

Fields as sci-fi force fields

Boundaries- barriers between what happens inside and outside the field, where habits within the field seem normative and weird outside

Fields as force fields (physics)

A field made up of opposing forces, working like magnetic field with positions determined by relation to four poles (different boundaries)

how are dispositon and positons related

• Position matches disposition of other places on the field

how do you move within a field

by trading capitals

who are those most likely to participate in “loser wins”

those with economic capital, not afraid to risk it for culutral captial

what compoents make up bourdieus theory

habitus, captials and fields