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The market of symbolic goods

Pierre Bourdieu
- 01 Apr 1985 - 
- Vol. 14, pp 13-44
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The cultural field consists of a set of systems of interrelated agents and institutions functionally defined by their role in the division of labour (of production, reproduction and diffusion of cultural goods) as mentioned in this paper.
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This article is published in Poetics.The article was published on 1985-04-01. It has received 378 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Symbolic capital & Commodity (Marxism).

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Problems in comparative research: The example of omnivorousness

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role of comparative research on omnivorousness taste from its serendipitous discovery and its evolving conceptualization to questions about its passing, and point to six sources of erroneous findings that are due to artifacts introduced by the methodology.
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Elements of Social Organization

TL;DR: In this article, the meaning of social anthropology, structure and organization in a small community, social change in Peasant communities, and the social framework of primitive art are discussed.
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Popular Appeal versus Expert Judgments of Motion Pictures

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the correlation between popular appeal and expert judgments in the case of motion pictures and found that ordinary consumers and professional critics do emphasize different criteria in the formation of their tastes but that we have reason to question critiques based on the implicit assumption of a negative correlation between popularity and expert judgment.
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The Peculiar History of Scientific Reason

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that science is a social field of forces, struggles, and relationships that is defined at every moment by the relations of power among the protagonists, and that scientific choices are guided by taken-for-granted assumptions, interactive with practices, as to what constitutes real and important problems, valid methods, and authentic knowledge.
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Toward a Practice Perspective of Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Legitimacy as Habitus

TL;DR: The authors argue that entrepreneurship research would benefit from a practice perspective, and drawing from Bourdieu's work, they envision entrepreneurship as a profoundly socially embedded process connected to entrepreneurs' positions in structures of power relations.
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The Rise of the Novel

Ian Watt
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Elements of Social Organization

TL;DR: In this article, the meaning of social anthropology, structure and organization in a small community, social change in Peasant communities, and the social framework of primitive art are discussed.