Bourdieu’s attempt to explain habitus as a result of class is thus vitiated by a basic conceptual weakness.
contradictions fissure this crystal palace of reified economic and political realities
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These expectations in as sense define what the PC has become--its reified form--so that we forget that each item on the list was the outcome of a choice and that other possibilities were neglected in the process.
institutions and practices that have been reified [...] so that they seem to be constants of human existence, beyond the reach of reform through intentional human action
A person described as "mad" is constructed through interpellation by psychiatric discourse and clinical practice.
