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Bourdieu built a single conceptual machine — habitus, field, capital — and then ran it over education, taste, art, academia, language, photography, housing and television. The difficulty is that the machine is explained least clearly in the books where it is first assembled, and most clearly in the books where it is being used.

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Bourdieu built a single conceptual machine — habitus, field, capital — and then ran it over education, taste, art, academia, language, photography, housing and television. The difficulty is that the machine is explained least clearly in the books where it is first assembled, and most clearly in the books where it is being used.
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A strong starting point is Culture & power by Swartz, David. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.

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