Habitus as topic and tool: Reflections on becoming a prizefighter

Qualitative Research in Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-92

  Wacquant, Loïc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne   (France)

Author keywords

Apprenticeship; Carnal sociology; Ethnography; Habitus; Social action; Subjectivity; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952807960     PISSN: 14780887     EISSN: 14780895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2010.544176     Document Type: Article

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