Pierre Bourdieu’s contributions to the theory and practice of social researchare far reaching. Possibly the most prominent sociologist in recent times, his work has touched on a myriad of topics and has influenced scholars in multiple disciplines. Throughout Bourdieu’s work, emphasis is placed on the linkage between the practice of social research and its relationship to social theory.This book honours Bourdieu’s commitment to the inextricable relationship between social theory and research in social science. In this volume, authors fromall over the world utilize key concepts coined by Bourdieu, specifically his concept of capitals, habitus, and the field, and attempt to test them using quantitative survey data. The focus of this volume is how researchers can take key elements of Bourdieu’s work and apply them to the analysis of quantitative data on a variety of topics. Addresses the work of Pierre Bourdieu, probably the most widely read and celebrated sociologist at the moment Links the problemof how to test the theories of Bourdieu with large data sets, which are becoming more widely used in the social sciences Addresses the issues of surrounding the validity of measuring the theoretical concepts put forward by Bourdieu INDICE: From the contents 1. Introduction: Approaches to Quantifying Bourdieu. 2. How Bourdieu Quantified Bourdieu: The Geometric Modelling of Data. 3. Quantifying the Field of Power in Norway. 4. The Homology Thesis: Distinction Revisited. 5. Transmutations of Capitals in Canada: A ‘Social Space’ Approach.6. The Cumulative Impact of Capital on Dispositions Across Time: A Fifteen Year Perspective of Canadian Young Women and Men. 7. The Influence of Cultural Capital on Educational and Early Labour Market Outcomes of Young People in Australia. 8. Teenage Time Use as Investment in Cultural Capital. 9. Cultural Capital and Access to Highly Selective Education: The Case of Admission to Oxford.10. Applying Bourdieu’s Concepts of Social and Cultural Capital in Educational Research in Greece and Cyprus. 11. Occupational Structures: The Stratification Space of Social Interaction. 12. Women’s Work and Cultural Reproduction: AnAnalysis of Non-Wage Labour in Central Ontario, 1861.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-9449-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés