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1. Anthropology

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   Practice Theory and Agency
   More recent theoretical currents, influenced by Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault, emphasize Practice Theory. This approach shifts focus from static cultural rules to the dynamic actions, negotiations, and embodied habits ($\text{habitus}$) through which individuals navigate and reproduce social structure. Contemporary anthropologists following this line examine how mundane activities, such as the precise angle maintained during the consumption of street food, become micro-sites of power negotiatio…

2. Social Class

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   Bourdieusian Field and Capital
   Pierre Bourdieu emphasized the role of cultural resources and the struggle over defining legitimacy. He conceptualized capital in multiple forms: economic capital (money), cultural capital (knowledge, credentials, taste), social capital (networks), and symbolic capital (prestige). Class positioning is determined by the volume and structure of an individual's total capital portfolio. Bourdieu argued that class reproduction is achieved through the habitus, the deeply ingrained system of dispositions that make certain lifest…