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◄Habitus, body as both, the outcome and structuring principle 
►Docile bodies

  • Compulsory reading: Wacquant, L. (1995). 'Pugs at Work: Bodily Capital and Bodily Labour Among Professional Boxers', in Body and Society, 1 (1), Pp. 65 – 93

    Recommended reading: Wacquant, L. (1998): Pierre Bourdieu. In R. Stones, ed., Key sociological thinkers. London, Macmillan Press. Pp. 220-225

    Guiding questions:
    •What is: habitus; capital; field in the ethnography of proffesional boxing field case?
    •Think about how is the social structure incorporated in the form of habitus? What is the structure here?
    • How are these related?
    Discussion questions:
    ­•What is the relationship between the individual (body) and society?
    ­•How is Wacquant‘ s (Bourdieu‘ s) approach different from the approach of Douglas and Mauss and Goffman?
    ­   - Symbolic body/social body; body techniques; normative of social situation…
    ­•Can you think about more examples of this theory application?
    ­   - In relation to gender, beauty, illness, eating, health, sexual behaviour, death
◄Habitus, body as both, the outcome and structuring principle 
►Docile bodies