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Bordieu’s theory contains three core concepts: field (a social arena in which people or agents position themselves in order to compete among them selves for resources or capital), capital (economic, social, cultural, or symbolic assets that can be utilized by agents to negotiate their positions), and the habi tus (the set of dispositions, including ways of speaking, gestures, and so on, informed by the agent’s doxa [i.
The editor’s extensive introduction details one of Gorski’s main argu ments: Due to the translation history of Bourdieu’s works from French to Eng lish, his approach has been perceived as focusing primarily on social reproduction and not social transformation.
Craig Calhoun’s “For the Social History of the Present: Bourdieu as Historical Sociologist” calls for viewing Bourdieu as a historical sociologist whose works identified four processes of social change: (1) the state and the market’s uprooting of traditional ways of life, (2) the creation of modern society and the formation of its fields, (3) the welfare state project of the post-WWII era, and (4) the reversal of this project due to the advent of neoliberalism.
The conclusion, “Bourdieusian Theory and Historical Analysis: Maps, Mechanisms, and Methods,” highlights how Bourdieu’s main concepts, typi cally used in sociology to track social reproduction, can be used in history with equal facility to explain social action and structural change.
Bour dieusian historical socio-analysis remains the best framework for studying continuity and change simultaneously within a social field with the intent of engaging and participating in that very continuity and transformation for the sake of societal improvement not just within Bourdieu’s European context, but also when applied to the study of the Muslim world.