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## Contributors 211 viii Contents Foreword xiii change in culture: '[The Jew's] group life is organized upon a marginal basis, characteristically expressed in his proclivity for living in the cosmopolitan city by means of trade and banking -"business."' Proposing this idea, Stonequist was offering a cultural explanation of how the Jewish mentality supported Jewish entrepreneurship. 5 Jews did not have this mentality in King David's time. However, in the centuries of diasporic marginality, Jews had acquired, in Stonequist's view, a characteristic objectivity that conduced very well to their success in business. Had the language been available, Stonequist might have said that Jews of the diaspora acquired a permanent second habitus, and that the bifocality of their habitus then supported their excellence in business. Had he said that he would have been at the same point as are the editors and contributors to this volume. NOTES 1 Sewell (1992: 16) criticized Bourdieu for this rigidity: 'habitus, which [Bourdieu] conceptualizes as a vast series of strictly homologous structures encompassing all of social experience. Such a conceptualization, which Bourdieu in fact shares roughly with m

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Author

Honig, Benson (editor);Drori, Israel (editor);Carmichael, Barbara (editor)

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442670082

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Economics