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biographical illusion: a standalone construct

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Historiography

Bourdieu's critique of treating a life as a coherent, directed story while ignoring the changing social fields in which it unfolded.

In historiography, biographical illusion refers to bourdieu's critique of treating a life as a coherent, directed story while ignoring the changing social fields in which it unfolded. This meaning comes from Bourdieu (1986) in Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales.[1]

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  1. Bourdieu, P. (1986). L'illusion biographique. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 62(1), 69-72. https://doi.org/10.3406/arss.1986.2317

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