Value and Time.

"Value" is a weird thing. It seems perhaps a for-sake-of-which, that one might do things in order to accumulate value, with the implicit criteria for value being an anthropological issue. If one ascribes value to being a professor, or going to good parties, or having money, then one behaves accordingly, and more or less unconsciously, because Value and the FSWs are all mostly unconscious.

But the whole thing plays out in TIME, even if one only strives to remain balanced in occupying a position. The professor must stay a professor as well as accumulate professorial value, the partyer must build his account of party experiences, the rich person must build and maintain a bank account, etc.

Bourdieu is interesting in looking at accumulated social value, and when it can be traded and mobilized in order to accomplish things. The parallel examples are interesting - the professor accumulates publications, the partyer a reputation and set of recountable events, the rich person some money; all of these can be mobilized to make more value - a new position that allows for more prestigious projects, a reputation that gets you more extreme-party friends, money for investment, etc.

Or not -- and one can be said to be spending capital...

But where does a culture or an individual get their notions and dispositions toward value? They aren't even "notions" exactly - pace Wittgenstein and Heidegger.

And what happens when value of a certain type is not accessible, especially when you don't know explicitly (presence at hand) that you value it? Or when there are conflicts?

Is it even a valid category? I think value is a useful analytic, but is it inherent in the human condition of perception?

Accumulating value makes me think of aggregate functions in SQL.