Developing Skills for Pragmatic Fieldwork

Each of the eight practices draws on our personalities and histories. Some people may even be naturally inclined to a few more than others. However, there are skills associated with each, and those skills can be improved. As Bourdieu (1977) articulates, our habitus, our ongoing, embodied actions, systematically shape the way we see. I believe the pragmatic fieldworker meaningfully pursues social justice by intentionally developing these eight habitus. This enables the fieldworker to see the life and structure of human interaction and reconstitute communities through symbols and bodies.