Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Additionally, In His Book ââ¬ÅDistinction,ââ¬Â Bourdieu Discusses
Additionally, in his book ââ¬Å"Distinction,â⬠Bourdieu discusses cultural capital and the way people use classes of classifications while classifying one another. As habitus, fields and cultural capital develop distinct of different class factions within social spaces, of the ââ¬Å"sacredâ⬠sphere of culture that legitimates social order. Therefore, people undoubtedly know their place within society as well quickly identify other individuals who are within their class are other factions of society that are not parts of the upper class via their pretentious actions. (p. 6-7). According to Bourdieu, Class ââ¬Å"is not defined by real propertyâ⬠but is determined by the structure of relations between values art, social graces and other resources, that theâ⬠¦show more contentâ⬠¦Chakrabarty Vs. Gramsci: In his book ââ¬Å"Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Differenceâ⬠author Dipesh Chakrabarty not totalizing as he feels it is impor tant that the race, history, and practices of different localities disrupt the totalizing thrust of capitalism. Postcolonial thought and ideologies via ââ¬Å"Totalizingâ⬠history as only a European experience and development of capitalism does not allow for human diversity and does not acknowledge that various cultural histories are part of and continue to modify current history. Thus, one must also incorporate the subjective human experience of other races and cultures into history and the development of capitalism and vice versa (p.22). In chapter two of ââ¬Å"Provincializing Europe,â⬠Chakrabarty recognizes the diversity of human experience and describes the experiences of political modernity in India and other races as different from Eurocentric experience. He asserts we must question ââ¬Å"historicismâ⬠as an idea thus suggesting that to ââ¬Å"understand anything it has to be understood as a whole via its historical developmentâ⬠(6). Thus, the totalizin g theory makes society blind to how local knowledge, different races, and cultures are essential in the development of history. Developing a distinction Marx made between the two kinds of history, Chakrabarty says History 1 is defined as the history of capitalism,
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