He redefined Husserl's concept of "doxa" as the beliefs a society takes for granted, and posited that individuals are shaped by a set of dispositions he termed a "habitus" in Outline of a Theory of Practice.
This author's late works include a monograph about male domination and Pascalian Meditations, and he argued that life is composed of overlapping but autonomous "fields." He redefined Husserl's concept of "doxa" as the beliefs a society takes for granted, and posited that individuals are shaped by a set of dispositions he termed a "habitus" in Outline of a Theory of Practice. This author of On Television theorized that social status is determined by the axes of economic capital, social capital, and cultural capital, and argued that differences in taste are used to legitimize social differences in his major work, which is subtitled "a social critique of the judgment of taste." For twenty points, name this contemporary French sociologist, the author of Distinction.
This author's late works include a monograph about male domination and Pascalian Meditations, and he argued that life is composed of overlapping but autonomous "fields."
{Pierre Bourdieu}