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Conventional ways of thinking about access mislead researchers into thinking that, once they have cracked through the black box's wall, knowledge will be waiting there for the taking. But access is not an event; it is the ongoing navigation of relationships. Access has a texture, and this texture -…

[...] Given Bourdieu's central role in developing practice theory, it would be surprising for him to suddenly come down on the side of structural determinism, arguing that people are simply recipients of large-scale social forces. Instead, Bourdieu's theory of taste hinges on his understanding of t…