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What are the main criticisms of Bordieu's work?

Just looking into his stuff and wondering what people haven't liked about ideas like habitus, fields, or anything else from him.
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ah, god. where to begin? There are tons, and i disagree with most of it and think that many critics do not supply the flexibility necessary to correctly bourdieu's work. By and large (and to state the obvious), most critics think his concepts/theories are overstated and overdeterministic and that his findings from one specific (and many would argue unique/peculiar) situation in france do not warrant generalizations. 

Here are two of the primary ones, mainly from sociology of ed. 

1. He's too structuralist. Too much of a strict reproduction theorist and, by dependence on concepts like habitus, he does not account  for the many changes that happen within and between people. Symbolic interactionists (and others) are the type to make this argument. Alexander and others also make this kind of argument - that Bourdieu's version of 'culture' is all just a series of taking self-interested moves that 'immediately reflect class-position'
2. Cultural Capital is a concept with much more limited applicability than he and others suppose (i.e. outside of 1960s french society and prior); it is so limited, sometimes it is impossible to even identify elsewhere (at least in so far as it affects outcomes in schooling). Like Kingston 2001.