ABSTRACT
In attempting to analyze the ways in which ‘culture’ shapes individual decision-making or, in other words, to operationalize Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, a possible approach seems to be to investigate in which form knowledge/knowing is mentally at the disposal of the actor. In the first case, the authors have a linguistic or procedural model that shows the prototypical of a simplified world and the causative interconnection of prototypical events. It depicts itself as 'expert' and is thereby felt to impugn local knowledge as ignorance'. The subject of knowledge has long philosophical history in which the meaning of the concept has been elaborately scrutinized. A successful family is presented and it is demonstrated how similar strategies result in the husband as well as the wife being successful in the village as well as in town. Andrew Strathern notes that ‘life-history’ is genre that anthropologists have suggested to the people with whom they work, and the conditions of their ‘production’ have varied.
