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field

is a domain of activity, so that we are all actors in many overlapping fields, each of which determine strategies (plans) for maximizing cultural capital.

the domain of an activity, so that we are all actors in many overlapping fields, each of which determine strategies (plans) for maximizing cultural capital' (Gerrans 'Pierre Bourdieu' Anthropological theory 5(1) 2005).

is a structured place of social forces and struggle in relation to which what can become capital is decided.

To put it simply, a field is 'a structured place of social forces and struggle' (Bourdieuand Wacquant 1992: 243). For example, if France stops teaching Latin (or Japanstops teaching Chinese classics) at school, anyone with the ability lO teach Latin (orChinese classics) loses their market niche to sell his or her knowledge, and his other 'capital' will revert into just a kind of 'possession.' In the field, 'I the struggleis over forms of capital. . ., and the action is comprised of the production of capital.the consurnption of capital, and the jockeying for positions among agents . . . and institutions'

is logical space carved out in which to put compulsions in order to render them harmless. We render compulsions useful by giving it the right to assert itself in a definite field.

We render the compulsion harmless, and indeed useful, by giving it the right to assert itself in a definite field. We admit it into the transference as a playground in which it is allowed to expand in almost complete freedom and in which it is expected to display to us everything in the way of pathogenic instincts that is hidden in the patient's mind. Provided only that the patient shows compliance enough to respect the necessary conditions of the analysis, we regularly succeed in giving all the symptoms of the illness a new transference meaning and in replacing his ordinary neurosis by a 'transference-neurosis' of which he can be cured by the therapeutic work. (Freud 'repetition, remembering' complete : 2505)

is mainly about the struggles over the value and relevance of different types of capital, and the prestige, privilege and power assigned to different positions in the field.

A field is mainly about the struggles over the value and relevance of different types of capital, and the prestige, privilege and power assigned to different positions in the field.

is something like a game wherein agents, in competition with others to gain the stakes, adopt strategies (including the strategy of redefining the value of the game and its rules).

The field operates like a game wherein agents adopt strategies in competition with others to gain the stakes. . . . Strategies may involve redefining the value of the game and its rules' (Warde 2004:12)

Without the master the field is an orphan.

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