Are there any sociologist mners?

[Molesworth]

And if so can I pick your brains about something please pretty please?

can i try?

hello

Hello soph, how are you?!

ok well I am trying to work out whether Bourdieu's concept of habitus is compatible with, or can 'sit on top of' Foucault's concept of subjectivities.

You can tell me if I have made a tit of myself by asking this, honest

I went out with someone who did sociology...for about two weeks. I mean I went out with him for two weeks, not he did sociology for two weeks.

But you know me...shall just butt in with my opinions anyway.

I don't think he covered that in the two weeks I went out with him. Soph?

butt away moo, butt away

I didn't know you were going to speak in a foreign language though.

No wonder you dumped him so quickly though moo. I mean imagine going out with someone for two whole weeks and not clarifying the old habitus situation

Oh the truly sad thing is that he dumped me Silly arse.

I'm not helping, am I, and soph's gone away.

She's probably typing out a lengthy reply I will fail to understand

Ach, well just copy it then

It sounds very hard...what are you doing?

Well I'm writing an essay but this is out of curiosity/stupidity (delete as appropriate)

No, I meant what is the essay for? What course are you doing?

I'm doing two sociology courses with the OU this year, it's my second year so I'm still very wet behind the ears.

How the heck have you been?

I have a PhD in sociology, and have lectured in the subject, but at the empirical end of the discipline, rather than the Bourdieu/Foucault end. My (very superficial) response is that they seem like rather similar ideas and that it would be interesting to explore the similarities.

Gosh, good for you - I'm very impressed. I'm OK, pootling along, same old same old and assorted other cliches.

There you go - you have a clever person to help you now!

right, i've been really thinking about this....and i reckon....

fuck knows.

have you googled, there seems to be a lot (i typed bourdieu's habitus foucault's subjectivities and tons came up)

PMSL I was expecting reams of clever stuff from you, soph.

OldieMum thank you - so it's not a completely laughable notion then?

What was the focus for your PhD?

The difficulty with the OU is that, although I have a tutor, they are paid 2p a week and therefore I'm reluctant to call him with my possibly ridiculous questions. Then I thought 'hang on a minute - mn always has the answer!'

mm. am soooo back on wagon. down to the most i had lost last summer and going for it!

no alcohol is helping considerably both with points and willpower.

v sorry to talk ww on your thread molesworth!!

molesworth, he might be interested and pleased that you are interested rather than hassled by your contact though

Wahey! Way to go, soph. I put on...no I'm not saying...over Christmas and have lost...er, some of it...in the last fortnight. But I keep lapsing.

Molesworth - I did a study of the impact of labour migration on household differentiation and gender relations in a poor area of Kenya. It involved engaging with feminist literature on power and the household etc, but also with the microeconomics of poverty (my first degree was in Politics and Economics). I haven't taught in a sociology department for more than ten years (I teach an interdisciplinary course in development now), but I still think of myself as a sociologist.