The Field and the Habitus
A Vertical City Memoir
Verticé: Where social capital flows through vertical channels of power
Mission Briefing
You are an undercover sociologist in Verticé, a stratified megacity where symbolic capital—status, taste, manners—rules more than money. Your mission: map the invisible "fields" of power while resisting assimilation into their values.
Key Concepts:
- • Fields: Social domains with their own rules
- • Capital: Economic, Cultural, Social, Symbolic
- • Habitus: Your embodied dispositions
- • Illusio: Investment in the game
Warning:
Every choice shapes who you become. Success in one field may corrupt your ability to critique it. Can you study power without becoming powerful?