The Logic of Practice

Many people attempt to place into words an accurate description of this book, but fail miserably. I am not saying that I can place into words an accurate description of this book either. I know that it will take many attempts to read this book by the average bibliophile or person interested in social discourse analysis or student of philosophy, but it may equally be easy for people who simply get it the first time around.

This book introduces social phenomena at it's most basic level of human social interaction. Bourdieu breaks down human behavior into parts, but at it's most fundamental level is the "habitus." People simply have habits that form their fundamental perspectives and their own worldviews. They operate within their show more respective systems, and become masters of their environments overtime. They participate in the gift exchange, but implicitly expect reciprocity in exchange while simultaneously denying it in something Bourdieu calls "misrecognition" in order to build "social" and "symbolic capital." Knowing the crux of his theory of Practice, aids any social researcher in better understanding people around them, settings for discursive practices, semiotics, contexts, and social phenomena, in any culture. Anthropologist's love the theory of Practice, because it allows them to analyze the ethnographic Other with a sense of objectification that was for so many years elusive in the profession. show less