Re: Bourdieu quote help please

From: Charles Nelson (c.nelson@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 24 2001 - 19:20:41 PST


Actually, both of those S's are correct. A fuller version goes:

"a habitus, understood as a system of lasting, transposable
dispositions which, integrating past experiences, functions at every
moment....."

Charles

>I do not have quick access to *Outline of a theory of practice*. I
>have urgent need of a check on a quote. If anyone out there has it,
>could you please check p. 82 of 1977 edition in English of sentence
>which he defines habitus. I have it as a "lastin, transposable
>dispositionS which, integrating past experience functionS at every
>moment....."
>
>One of those S's has to be wrong. Is it disposition, not dispositions,
>or.....?
>
>Thanks for the weekend help
>mike



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