Field (Bourdieu)

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Field is one of the core concepts used by French social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. Field is a setting in which agents and their social positions are located. The position of each particular agent in the field is a result of interaction between the specific rules of the field, agent's habitus and agent's capital (social, economic and cultural) (Bourdieu, 1984).

Fields are interacting with each other, and are hierarchical (most are subordinate of the larger field of power and class relations).

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