--- product_id: 9565753 title: "The Logic of Practice" price: "£22.33" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/9565753-the-logic-of-practice store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # The Logic of Practice **Price:** £22.33 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Logic of Practice - **How much does it cost?** £22.33 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/9565753-the-logic-of-practice) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object of study is a particular instance of the relationship between knowing and doing, interpreting and using, symbolic mastery and practical mastery―or between logical logic, armed with all the accumulated instruments of objectification, and the universally pre-logical logic of practice. In this, his fullest statement of a theory of practice, Bourdieu both sets out what might be involved in incorporating one's own standpoint into an investigation and develops his understanding of the powers inherent in the second member of many oppositional pairs―that is, he explicates how the practical concerns of daily life condition the transmission and functioning of social or cultural forms. The first part of the book, "Critique of Theoretical Reason," covers more general questions, such as the objectivization of the generic relationship between social scientific observers and their objects of study, the need to overcome the gulf between subjectivism and objectivism, the interplay between structure and practice (a phenomenon Bourdieu describes via his concept of the habitus ), the place of the body, the manipulation of time, varieties of symbolic capital, and modes of domination. The second part of the book, "Practical Logics," develops detailed case studies based on Bourdieu's ethnographic fieldwork in Algeria. These examples touch on kinship patterns, the social construction of domestic space, social categories of perception and classification, and ritualized actions and exchanges. This book develops in full detail the theoretical positions sketched in Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice . It will be especially useful to readers seeking to grasp the subtle concepts central to Bourdieu's theory, to theorists interested in his points of departure from structuralism (especially fom Lévi-Strauss), and to critics eager to understand what role his theory gives to human agency. It also reveals Bourdieu to be an anthropological theorist of considerable originality and power. Review: Useful and Complex - Bourdieu is brilliant and very difficult to read and understand, however many of his theories are really quite useful, if you can get your head around his complicated language. Review: Scanned pdf? - I've bought a couple e-books by Bourdieu from desertcart . this one, and some others, seemed to be scanned PDF versions of his books. Very disappointing. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #187,231 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #40 in Sociology (Books) #125 in Sociology Research & Measurement #128 in Social Sciences Research | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 43 Reviews | ## Images ![The Logic of Practice - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71x5zCZ70EL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐ Useful and Complex *by J***. on November 24, 2013* Bourdieu is brilliant and very difficult to read and understand, however many of his theories are really quite useful, if you can get your head around his complicated language. ### ⭐ Scanned pdf? *by K***R on July 23, 2023* I've bought a couple e-books by Bourdieu from Amazon . this one, and some others, seemed to be scanned PDF versions of his books. Very disappointing. ### ⭐ Format is unreadable *by J***A on September 15, 2023* Do mot buy this kindle version. 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