Re: lA contribution to a discussion of practice/process

From: Paul Dillon (dillonph@northcoast.com)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 19:00:34 PST


Judy,

I put out a request there and maybe someone knows the answers to your
questions. In the meantime, this is a token post (qualitative data's ok
isn't it). Just came today:

> Dear everyone in the list: I started reading Bourdieu systematically a
year
> or so, which is not a long time. I am a female teacher (my nickname Cris
> brings about gender confusions)of English and Linguistics but I am working
> on social studies, inparticular the questions related to symbolic capital
> and the implications it has on domination of lower classes, especially in
> countries like my own. I am deadly overworked. I feel I am really a
> proletarian of education (I've read something about it in the list
recently)
> so I am short of time and , believe it or not, my research work is
> completely ad-honrem; I get nothing out of it, only a theoretical
framework
> to support my social militancy in a slum area here in my city.
> I want to thank you all because I've been learning an awful lot with your
> comments; I feel like a flea. The level of discussion is great and, I am
> sorry for some time I will remain an observator of what you do. I wrote a
> very basic intro to Bourdieu last year; it's in Spanish; if anyone feels
> like doing a critical reading of it, or just enjoy it let me know and I'll
> send it by mail; it makes some 22,000 words. Let me know if anyone wants
it.
> Well enough for today, I promise to keep in touch; after all it's us who
> make the list going.

Does that sound at all familiar??? This post would betoken a fairly high
comfort level, wouldn't it??

Paul H. Dillon



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