this paper aims to study and formulate the field of literature in iran during 1921 and 1941. for this purpose, the authors have focused on two key writers of this period, mohammad hejazi and sadegh hedayat. analyzing the social positions, habitus and literary works of these writers can help us to have a clear picture of the mentioned period. it also can show dominant poles in the literary field...

according to bourdieu’s cultural theory, the author’s trajectory reflects the dialectical relationship between his or her habitus and conditions of the literary field in a given historical situation. habitus is dialectically tied to the field and constructed with different capitals. in an author’s habitus, cultural capital plays the main role as the most significant capital. the field of litera...

bourdieu had the help of two concepts of “habitus” and “field” to explain his theory and to show social distinctions, he argues that the social world is made up of different fields. each field has its own certain habitus and they can change depending on the field`s change. he believes that modern world is based on distinction. this distinction is clear in structural concepts such as space, clas...

Based on Bourdieu’s concepts of “capital” and “habitus” in his class theory, this paper examines the differentiation of capital investment and parenting habitus on children’s education between the Chinese urban middle class and lower class. By analyzing 2009 survey data of students in grades 4 and 8 in urban areas, the authors found that middle-class parents had significant advantages in capita...

This paper aims to balance the conceptual reception of Bourdieu‘s sociology in the United States through a conceptual re-examination of the concept of Habitus. I retrace the intellectual lineage of the Habitus idea, showing it to have roots in Claude Levi-Strauss structural anthropology and in the developmental psychology of Jean Piaget, especially the latter‘s generalization of the idea of ope...

12 mg/ dl, Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) 3.2 ng/ ml and a CA 19-9 of 38310 U/ml. Ultrasonographic examination and computed tomography of the abdomen were of poor quality due to body habitus. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen showed intrahepatic biliary dilatation, a dilated common bile duct of 11mm and no pancreatic mass. Endoscopic ultrasound revealed cholelithiasis as well as a...

Peter, an African American writer from a low-income community, is followed across a 10-year period as he progresses from first grade through high school. Drawing on writing samples and interviews, the author identifies a set of interrelated dispositions that contribute to his development of habitus as a writer. This article considers Peter’s developing writing abilities alongside these emerging...

Bourdieu confuses himself and others by calling his project a ‘transcendence’ of the objectivist–subjectivist antinomy. Contrary to claims, Bourdieu’s methodology and theoretical premises are directly opposed to phenomenological social constructivism, though he makes use of several key phenomenological concepts. Habitus enriches the objectivist perspective by specifying a partial theory of agen...

Modern conversations between the natural sciences and theology on the human soul have not so far engaged extensively with the debates of the early church on the matter. This article considers the relevance of the Apollinarian controversy (the fourth century Christological contention of whether or not Jesus has a human soul/mind), and suggests that this introduces important considerations for th...