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Schmitz, Andreas. "An Interview with Frédéric Lebaron on the Genesis and Principles of Bourdieusian Sociology: The Real Is (Still) Relational." Theory, Culture & Society 35, no. 6 (December 13, 2017): 113–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276417742705.
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This interview comprises different key aspects of Pierre Bourdieu’s work. Amongst others, the following topics are treated: the development of Frédéric Lebaron’s collaboration with Bourdieu, the political and ideological conditions prevailing at the time of Bourdieu’s early works and during the phase of his establishment, the epistemological foundations of Bourdieu’s relationism, the relationship to other modern paradigms such as Fligstein’s and McAdam’s field theory, Hedström’s analytical sociology, discourse analysis, network analysis, and a debate on relationalism, causality, and rationality within the architecture of Bourdieu’s theory.
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Grenfell, Michael. "Reflecting in/on field theory in practice." Tempo Social 30, no. 2 (July 28, 2018): 195–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2018.132281.
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The article discuses the dimension of reflexivity within the work of the social theorist Pierre Bourdieu. It alludes to the provenance of Bourdieu’s theory of practice and the epistemology, which underpins it. Language is a key element in reflexivity, the article therefore outline’s Bourdieu approach to language and the significance it holds in the development of his key concepts, as well as the relationship between subject and object. Reference is made to the works of Habermas, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and others to offer a ground base in just what Bourdieusian reflexivity is and how it operates in practice. Phases and stages in methodology are referred to as well as how reflexivity should operate within them. Finally, the significance of the discussion is underlined with reference to consequent outcomes.
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Kim, Jaeeun. "Migration-Facilitating Capital: A Bourdieusian Theory of International Migration." Sociological Theory 36, no. 3 (September 2018): 262–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0735275118794982.
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Despite the centrality of the notion of “capital,” scholarship on international migration has yet to fully explore the generative potential of Bourdieu’s theory. This article “thinks with” Bourdieu to theorize how states, aspiring migrants, and migration brokers interact over the valorization, conversion, and legitimization of various types of capital for migration purposes. Drawing on Bourdieu’s theorization on the state, I identify the variegated ways in which state policies and their enactment by frontline gatekeepers constitute migration-facilitating capital. I show how migration brokers help migrants acquire adequate capital—or the semblance of possession of such capital—to contest the state’s monopolistic claim over the governance of identity, qualification, and mobility. Drawing on Bourdieu’s conceptualization of field, habitus, illusio, and symbolic violence, I analyze how migrants partake in “organized striving” for migration-facilitating capital, the uneven distribution of which produces material and symbolic stratification.
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Kazun, Anton. "Juridical Field or Legal Profession? Comparison of Bourdieusian Theory and Theory of Professionalism for Studies of Legal Community." Comparative Sociology 15, no. 5 (October 7, 2016): 572–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341400.
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The article looks at how Pierre Bourdieu’s fields theory and the theory of professionalism correlate in the analysis of legal communities. We demonstrate that even though Pierre Bourdieu criticized the notion of profession and called for it to be abandoned, his views regarding the legal field were in fact very close to the concept of professionalism. Based on a number of publications citing both these approaches we can conclude that today researchers hardly ever use both these approaches simultaneously. This means that combining these two methodological approaches has a lot of potential.
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Hilton, Jed. "Divorced Eggs and the Culinary Field: Bourdieu, Field Theory, and the Chef." Open Review 6 (November 26, 2020): 58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.47967/nhfc6366.
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In this article I seek to utilise Bourdieu’s field theory to examine the relation between the artistic and culinary fields. I examine how the field has changed since the mid-twentieth century and how, since the 1960s, the autonomy of the chef drastically changed the culinary field. Focusing upon elite chefs of the twenty-first century, such as Ferran Adrià and Massimo Bottura, I analyse how European haute cuisine has developed and how dialogues between the chef and diner have become a defining feature of contemporary haute cuisine. Overall I examine how this autonomy occurred and what it potentially means for haute cuisine in the future. Throughout, I reference the concepts of Bourdieu’s field theory, legitimation, and heteronomy/autonomy to explain how these changes within the culinary field occurred and what it means for the field.
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Schmitz, Andreas, Daniel Witte, and Vincent Gengnagel. "Pluralizing field analysis: Toward a relational understanding of the field of power." Social Science Information 56, no. 1 (November 9, 2016): 49–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018416675071.
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A crucial yet often-overlooked starting point for any Bourdieusian field analysis is to relate the field under consideration to the ‘field of power’, so as to enable an examination of its relative autonomy or heteronomy, i.e. its relation to other fields of society and to society as a whole. However, Bourdieu and his successors did not implement this key conceptual consideration systematically, or did so peripherally at best. For this reason both the theoretical and the empirical status of the field of power remain, for the most part, unclear. The fundamental philosophy of ‘methodological relationism’ has not been systematically applied, of all things, to a core element of Bourdieu’s theory of society which basically is a theory of power relations. We argue that a relational approach to the field of power is essential for theorizing the relation between (a) fields and (b) fields and the social space.
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Fisher, Jolene. "Digital games for international development: A field theory perspective." International Communication Gazette 81, no. 6-8 (November 29, 2018): 707–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048518814358.
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While serious games have been used within the field of international development since 2005, their adoption as tools for social and behavior change has remained fairly limited. Using Bourdieu’s theory of practice as an analytical framework, this study examines the tensions created when the fields of international development and serious games are brought together. In-depth interviews with development practitioners and game experts responsible for creating the nonprofit Half the Sky Movement’s mobile phone and Facebook games are used to examine how logistical considerations and ideological conflicts between agents from differing fields shape the limitations and possibilities of bringing games into the development space. Further, this study analyzes the new forms of Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and capital created through this overlap in fields, filling an existing gap in the extant literature on the production and use of games for international development.
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Nexon, Daniel H., and Iver B. Neumann. "Hegemonic-order theory: A field-theoretic account." European Journal of International Relations 24, no. 3 (July 4, 2017): 662–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066117716524.
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This article outlines a field-theoretic variation of hegemonic-order theory — one inspired primarily by the work of Pierre Bourdieu. We argue that hegemony derives from the possession of a plurality of meta-capital in world politics; hegemons exercise “a power over other species of power, and particularly over their rate of exchange.” Recasting conventional hegemonic-order theories along these lines carries with it at least three advantages: it helps bridge the differences between realist and neo-Gramscian approaches to hegemony; it provides scaffolding for exploring the workings of hegemony and hegemonic ordering across different scales; and it better addresses the fact that hegemonic powers are enabled and constrained by international order itself. After reviewing some of the major variants of hegemonic-order theory, we explore Bourdieu’s understanding of hegemony and cognate concepts. We then elaborate on our field-theoretic approach, with examples drawn from US foreign relations and the Roman Empire. Finally, we provide a longer illustrative sketch in the form of a discussion of Roman ordering and its longue durée influence on social, political, and cultural fields in world politics.
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Savage, Mike, and Elizabeth B. Silva. "Field Analysis in Cultural Sociology." Cultural Sociology 7, no. 2 (May 29, 2013): 111–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975512473992.
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The idea of field analysis has been championed as an alternative to ‘variable based’ accounts of social life, and offers the potential for cross-fertilization with complexity theory and forms of ‘descriptive’ research. Yet, the Bourdieusian roots of field analysis pose challenges as well as advantages, given the widespread critique of reductionist elements in Bourdieu’s thinking. This introduction to the special issue lays out how Bourdieu conceives of field analysis and some of the ambivalences this might give rise to. The papers in this special issue explore through worked examples how field analysis might be radicalized and made more dynamic. We focus on three main issues: (1) understanding emerging field dynamics which challenge the influential model that Bourdieu uses in Distinction, (2) showing the potential for comparative analysis and (3) recognizing the role of materiality in cultural relations. The papers collected here allow for varied engagements with the theoretical underpinnings of the classical formulations of field theory, via empirical analyses of both ‘established’ and ‘new’ fields to explore the trajectories of possible developments in field analysis.
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Standfield, Catriona. "Gendering the practice turn in diplomacy." European Journal of International Relations 26, no. 1_suppl (September 2020): 140–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066120940351.
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International Relations has developed an exciting new research agenda on diplomatic practice, drawing largely on the theories of Pierre Bourdieu. However, it largely ignores Bourdieu’s theory of patriarchy, as well as extensive feminist Bourdieusian analysis. These are analytical tools that can be used to understand how diplomacy reproduces itself as a masculinized field. They are ‘practice theory’ as well and should be incorporated into our research on diplomatic practice. My aims here are to recover feminist practice theory for a diplomatic studies audience and to indicate how we can develop an interdisciplinary research agenda on gender and diplomacy. The first part of the article provides an overview of practice theory in diplomatic studies and discusses Bourdieu’s overlooked contributions regarding gender. I then use Bourdieu’s ‘thinking tools’ of field, habitus and practice to examine diplomacy and gender using examples drawn from the literature, as well as from some primary sources. Throughout, I show how feminist sociologists have developed his ideas to create sophisticated approaches to studying the persistence of patriarchy. This does not capture all the ways in which diplomacy is gendered, but these tools reveal the limitations in our current understanding of diplomatic practices. I conclude with suggestions for future interdisciplinary research that takes gender seriously.
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Loinjak, Igor. "Umjetnost u službi generiranja viška vrijednosti – o umjetničkom djelu kao (specifičnom) obliku kapitala." Život umjetnosti, no. 104 (July 2019): 144–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.31664/zu.2019.104.09.
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According to one of Marx’s classifications, human labour can be divided into productive and unproductive: productive labour produces and accumulates surplus value, while unproductive does not. In his analysis of the field theory, Pierre Bourdieu implied that, by its very existence, a work of art possesses value that generates the accumulation of capital on the market. In this sense, an artistic artefact is considered to be the result of productive labour. Bourdieu writes that, in the intellectual (artistic, scientific) field, priority is given to the symbolic capital, which can be converted into the economic one at any time. Although it is derived from Marx’s theses, Bourdieu’s concept of capital is not consistently based on the Marxist idea of the exploitation of surplus value. However, the French sociologist admits that all capital is essentially based on the economic one, because all other types of capital can be converted into the economic one, which brings Bourdieu’s theory back into the framework of Marxist economism. Fields are arenas in which participants clash over different types of capital, but they are also spaces of struggle for legitimacy and the right to monopolise. On the basis of insights into the relationships of gallerists, curators and critics with the work of artists belonging to the new artistic practice in Croatia in the late 1960s and 1970s, this article will examine the extent to which Marx’s theses on productive and unproductive labour correlate to Bourdieu’s concept of the artistic field and its capital, and how artistic products of the new artistic practice can justify their existence as products of productive labour.
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Couldry, Nick. "Media meta-capital: Extending the range of Bourdieu’s field theory." Theory and Society 32, no. 5/6 (December 2003): 653–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:ryso.0000004915.37826.5d.
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Kaščák, Ondrej, and Branislav Pupala. "Topography of power relations in Slovak preschool sector based on Bourdieu’s field theory." Journal of Pedagogy 8, no. 1 (August 28, 2017): 57–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jped-2017-0003.
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AbstractThe article analyses the Slovak preschool education sector using Bourdieu’s field theory. It describes stable and volatile points in the evolution of preschool education in terms of the power games occurring within the specific social field of power relations shaped during these games. It explores the groups of powerful players that represent the political, civic-professional and academic sub-fields exerting an influence over the preschool field who in different ways and at various times control the preschool field and structure within it the hierarchy of power relations in preschool education governance. The analysis is empirically illustrated; the power relations played out and were renewed when the national preschool curriculum was undergoing fundamental change. It describes the strategies, processes and consequences of changes in the power relations between the sub-fields and the associated behaviour of the actors. The analysis shows how the power conflicts ultimately led to the homologous relations between the sub-fields transforming into democratically- -structured power relations in preschool education governance.
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Bardocz-Bencsik, Mariann, and Tamas Doczi. "Mapping Sport for Development and Peace as Bourdieu’s Field." Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research 81, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pcssr-2019-0001.
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AbstractOver the past two decades, there has been a growing interest in the use of sport and other forms of physical activity to reach development goals and to support peace-building and peace-keeping processes. The sport for development and peace (SDP) sector is continuously growing in terms of the types of stakeholders involved and the number of projects implemented.This paper examines the SDP sector using Bourdieu’s field theory and his concept of habitus and capital. For this, a qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with 10 people involved in SDP was used. Their perception of the stakeholders in the field and the connections between them are analyzed through the lens of field theory. The analysis particularly focuses on the perceived role of the former United Nations Office of Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP), which was closed during the data analysis.
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Vasiliauskas, Saulius. "Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory and Studies of the Soviet Lithuanian Literary Field." Žmogus ir žodis 20, no. 2 (March 8, 2019): 119–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/zz.2018.7.
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Hutaibat, Khaled. "Accounting for strategic management, strategising and power structures in the Jordanian higher education sector." Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 15, no. 3 (September 2, 2019): 430–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jaoc-06-2018-0054.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a field study, investigating accounting, strategising and accounting for strategic management and power structures in the Jordanian higher education (HE) sector on the basis of Bourdieu’s theory of practice. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts an interpretive stance, seeking to investigate the perceptions of actors in the field, with regard to accounting, strategising and accounting for strategic management in HE. The adopted methodology is adapted grounded theory, as this study assumes a prior theoretical stance of Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts. Data were collected through participant observation in meetings, at the workplace, interviews and documentation. Findings The main findings of this paper reflect how strategising and accounting in practice manifest themselves in the Jordanian HE sector. Bourdieu’s theory of practice sets the meta-theoretical context of the current study, with field setting the scene, and habitus being represented in the strategising mind-set participants adopt. The mind-set determines how strategic management accounting is perceived and dealt with. Strategic management accounting takes place at varying degrees. The power structures that influence and determine strategising and accounting in support thereof are researched on the basis of Bourdieu’s forms of capital. Different forms of capital matter in the HE sector determined by fields’ doxa. Research limitations/implications The researcher is a part of the field, the Jordanian HE sector; thus, their habitus has been exposed to its characteristics and features. Thus, certain internalised structures and experiences needed to be challenged for this analysis, which was not an easy task. Originality/value This study investigates accounting, strategic management and power structures in HE, and it highlights the different power structures, using Bourdieu’s forms of capital, which offers a great insight into how different cultures approach similar issues.
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Atkinson, Will. "Time for Bourdieu: Insights and oversights." Time & Society 28, no. 3 (January 16, 2018): 951–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463x17752280.
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This paper explores the role of time in Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory with a view to highlighting, and plugging, some of its conceptual gaps. It proceeds by identifying four elements of the social structuring of temporal experience: the temporal structure of consciousness; field rhythms and pace; imposed timings; and time binds. The first two of these Bourdieu brought to the fore, even if there are some aspects of his account in need of further development. The third he posited without tracing through the full conceptual consequences, while the fourth requires some reorientation and additional work to accommodate it. The latter I undertake by elaborating on a few concepts drawn from both Bourdieu’s corpus and phenomenology.
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Krisdinanto, Nanang. "PIERRE BOURDIEU, SANG JURU DAMAI." KANAL: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi 2, no. 2 (October 1, 2016): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.21070/kanal.v2i2.300.
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Pierre Bourdieu built his theoretical orientation as a solution to what he saw as a false opposition between objectivism and subjectivism; to quote Bourdieu: “absurd opposition between individual and society”. Bourdieu offered a point of view that emphasizes on duality in the relationship between agent and structure, as an alternative to the previously existing dualistic views. Bourdieu refers to his theoretical orientation as genetic structuralism, constructivist structuralism or structuralist constructivism. Through the concept of habitus, field, and capital, Bourdieu integrated objectivism (which emphasizes the role of objective structure in social practice) and subjectivism (which emphasizes the role of agent in social practice). Bourdieu formulated the theory of social practice with the equation (Habitus x Capital) + Field = Practice. Practice, in Bourdieu’s mind, is the product of the relationship between habitus and field, wherein within field itself there are powers at stake, especially between people with capital and people without capital.
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Santos, Marcos Cardoso dos. "Identity and Discourse in Securitisation Theory." Contexto Internacional 40, no. 2 (September 3, 2018): 229–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-8529.2018400200003.
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Abstract This article examines the complementarities among Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory, Bourdieu’s notions of habitus and field, and Huysmans’s conception of discursive security strategy as a mediator of people’s relation to death. The interplay among these theories explains how hegemonic security discourses emerge. The self-referential aspect of the Copenhagen School’s Securitisation Theory (ST) does not contradict the existence of a relation of forces among securitising actors and audiences in given security fields, based on the ownership of social capital. This article rejects the theoretical positions adopted by Bigo, Tsoukala and Balzacq in terms of which ST is regarded as intersubjective. Utilising the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe, it is possible to verify how hegemonic security discourses are determined. Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field and Huysmans’s premises about security strategy also have implications for ST, mainly for the discussions about whether it has an intersubjective or self-referential aspect. As discourses of danger construct the political identities of states, the study of their influence on foreign policy is relevant to international relations. This article concludes that when the degree of otherness gets closer to the radical Other, extraordinary measures are easily tolerated by the agents involved in the securitisation process.
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Campos, Pedro Humberto Faria, and Rita de Cássia Pereira Lima. "Social positions and groups: New approximations between Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and social representation theory." Culture & Psychology 23, no. 1 (July 24, 2016): 38–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067x16652133.
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This article proposes approximations between Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and Serge Moscovici’s social representation theory. Both authors are interested in the relationship between agents/groups, social context, and culture, and both value the symbolic dimension in the construction of social reality. Bourdieu highlights the social world of struggles between the socialized agent and culture, while Moscovici privileges interactions involving the collective subject which, whether in conflict or consensus, produces a theory of social knowledge that is revealing of culture. In this broader context, the article highlights relations between “social positions” and “groups” which are present in both Bourdieu and Willem Doise, an important collaborator of Moscovici in the area of social representation theory. Such relations are founded on the principle of structural homology, a principle based on the correspondence between social structure and symbolic systems. This discussion leads to another: the need to understand “consensus” and “conflict” in groups, in both Moscovici and Doise, relating them to the action of forces in Bourdieu’s social field of struggles. The notion of “group,” which is valued in our text, is little discussed by these authors. We emphasize the necessity to go deeper into group interactions in articulation with positions in the social field, and to value group representations and practices in meaning negotiation processes, as well to discuss the question of social change. We propose studying social representations—in groups with homogeneous practices—as a symbolic form of condensation and measurement of symbolic capital, adding to this approach the notion of social position and semiotic mediation.
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Grabowska, Izabela. "Migracje międzynarodowe i teoria Bourdieu." Kultura i Społeczeństwo 59, no. 4 (November 24, 2015): 131–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.35757/kis.2015.59.4.7.
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The author considers Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual formula where [(habitus) (capital)] + field = practice and brings it to the field of international migration. She proves that a complete, cohesive application of Bourdieu’s theory in migration studies has much greater heuristic potential than the use of isolated individual concepts—it enables a new view of the social world where international migration constitutes an inherent part. It aims at explaining such phenomena as transnational habitus, forms of capital in migration process, migratory field, and transnational practices.
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지주형. "Bourdieu’s Theory of the Scientific Field and Its Limits Regarding Scientific Validity." 사회과학연구 22, no. 2 (August 2014): 94–124. http://dx.doi.org/10.17787/jsgiss.2014.22.2.94.
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Hacker, Daphna. "A legal field in action: the case of divorce arrangements in Israel." International Journal of Law in Context 4, no. 1 (March 2008): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744552308001018.
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This paper suggests a theoretical and methodological framework that integrates Bourdieu’s conception of the juridical field with Mnookin and Kornhauser’s claim of the centrality of the action occurring in the shadow of the law. This framework is constructed based on a study of the Israeli legal field governing divorce that included the analysis of 360 divorce files and in-depth interviews with more than 40 divorcees and legal and therapeutic professionals. The study allows a rare exploration of a legal field in action, including the main positions within the field and the power relations between them, as well as the field’s boundaries and game rules. The findings illustrate the importance of Bourdieu’s fields theory if and when opened up to the informal dimensions of law and demonstrate the potential of the suggested framework to the sociological understanding of law in action.
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Glaubitz, Nicola. "How Useful is Bourdieu’s Notion of Cultural Capital for Describing Literary Markets?" Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 69, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 43–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2020-2028.
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Abstract Bourdieu’s concepts of cultural capital and field, developed in the 1970s and 1980s, still provide systematic reference points for studies interested in literary cultures under market conditions. These concepts have found resonance in studies observing the changing organisation, structure, and social positions involved in the writing, reading, and circulation of literature. While both the conceptual clarity and the historical results Bourdieu achieved (in particular in his study The Rules of Art, originally published in 1992) have come under attack, both his key concepts and his multi-method approach function as a theoretical toolbox for present studies. The article discusses three studies (Childress 2017; English 2005; Guillory 1993) which make use of Bourdieu’s concept of capital in order to describe contemporary US publishing, the role of literary canons in higher education, and the status of literary awards. I argue that Bourdieu’s framework is productive in these cases when it is used in a heuristic way, when the idea of cultural and social capital is considered as processes and practices of valuation, and when it points to the political aspects of economies.
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Nolan, Kathleen. "Dispositions in the field: viewing mathematics teacher education through the lens of Bourdieu’s social field theory." Educational Studies in Mathematics 80, no. 1-2 (September 22, 2011): 201–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10649-011-9355-9.
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Lindell, Johan. "Bringing Field Theory to Social Media, and Vice-Versa: Network-Crawling an Economy of Recognition on Facebook." Social Media + Society 3, no. 4 (October 2017): 205630511773575. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305117735752.
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Social media research needs social theory in order to historicize and contextualize findings. At the same time, (analogue) social theory may benefit from the affordances of digital methods. This article explores this Janus-faced argument by way of a Facebook crawl of the Swedish field of culture. First, it is argued that field theory helps understand inter-institutional interaction on social media, and that it places activities on social media in a broader social context. Findings of the Facebook crawl illustrate the persistence of the structure and autonomy of the field of culture as depicted by Bourdieu. Second, despite Bourdieu’s rejection of network analysis, it is argued that it supplements empirical field research on two counts. Bourdieu argued for a relational understanding of the social world and for the study of “objective relations” between agents in a field. Following this, the network analysis provides a focus on actual practices—crystallized acts of recognition in the form of “likes” between institutions. This contrasts the somewhat oxymoronic use of self-reports to study “objective relations” that to date characterize Bourdieusian sociology. Additionally, the network analysis of a crawl of institutions on social media has the capacity to begin to uncover the amplitude, or reach, of a social field—which to date is rare in empirical field research. The article concludes by arguing for the mutual benefit of social theory and digital methods.
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Yoon, Ee-Seul. "School Choice Research and Politics with Pierre Bourdieu: New Possibilities." Educational Policy 34, no. 1 (October 14, 2019): 193–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0895904819881153.
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Various sociological perspectives have been applied to facilitate school choice research over the past two decades, as showcased in this 2020 Yearbook of Politics of Education Association. Among them, Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts and theories stand out as a catalyst for the field’s sociological development. My first objective in this article is, thus, to assess the contributions of Bourdieu’s sociological theory to school choice scholarship to date. I review the established and emerging research studies to highlight the significance of Bourdieu’s conceptual system in illuminating the social dynamics of school choice. My second objective in this article is to discuss how Bourdieu’s geographical concerns and concepts have been underutilized in the field. Ultimately, I argue that Bourdieu’s sociospatial concepts can unlock new areas of research and politics by elucidating why and how school choice functions as a mechanism that accentuates social inequality, which is reproduced geographically.
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Andrews, Therese. "Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice and the OECD PISA Global Competence Framework." Journal of Research in International Education 20, no. 2 (July 27, 2021): 154–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14752409211032525.
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Globalisation has become increasingly important in education, and national systems are no longer defined only by the nation-state. The role of intergovernmental organisations such as the OECD has also become increasingly important, particularly through the development of the PISA tests and the publication of international comparison tables. With a growing recognition of educating for an international and globalised future, the OECD assessed global competence for the first time in 2018, with results released in October 2020. The power that the OECD exerts over its member states, and indeed further, in the field of education through the global competence assessment demonstrates social reproduction. This article examines the OECD’s 2018 Global Competence Framework from a Bourdieusian perspective. An analysis is undertaken of the framework using Bourdieu’s thinking tools of habitus, field and capital, and the mechanisms of pedagogic authority, pedagogic action and pedagogic work, demonstrating an unconsciously agreed power differential between social groups. The OECD, as well as policy-makers at a national level, must consider such implications in anticipating future policy developments in order to enable systemic injustices to be overcome and educational equality to be achieved.
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Prieur, Annick. "Towards a criminology of structurally conditioned emotions: Combining Bourdieu’s field theory and cultural criminology." European Journal of Criminology 15, no. 3 (October 26, 2017): 344–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370817737242.
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When trying to explain why some people commit crimes while most do not, criminological theory has had a problem with linking agency and structure. A promising solution came in Jock Young’s version of cultural criminology, which integrated Merton’s strain theory with Katz’s account of the emotional rewards from criminal acts. Young claimed the core emotion behind different crimes would be a structurally caused experience of humiliation. Linking individual agency and structural conditions through emotions certainly advances understanding, but Young did not show how this linking was effectuated. Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory may contribute with a better grasp on how structural conditions influence the social agent’s perception of the world and emotional orientation towards it. After exploring how this argument may be supported with regard to empirical cases – studies of graffiti, thefts and violence – the concluding discussion deals with the limits of an approach that combines fields and emotions.
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Cooper, Linda, Nick Caddick, Lauren Godier, Alex Cooper, and Matt Fossey. "Transition From the Military Into Civilian Life." Armed Forces & Society 44, no. 1 (December 12, 2016): 156–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095327x16675965.
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In this article, we employ the theoretical framework and concepts of Pierre Bourdieu to examine the notion of “transition” from military to civilian life for U.K. Armed Forces personnel. We put Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, capital, and field to work in highlighting key differences between military and civilian life. The use of social theory allows us to describe the cultural legacy of military life and how this may influence the posttransition course of veterans’ lives. There may be positive and negative transition outcomes for service personnel when moving into civilian life, and by applying Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts, we explain how such outcomes can be understood. We suggest that the “rules” are different in military environments compared to civilian ones and that service personnel must navigate a complex cultural transition when moving between environments. There are numerous and significant implications—including policy applications—from understanding transition through a Bourdieusian lens, and these are highlighted throughout.
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Kalogeropoulos, Theodoros, Vrassidas Leopoulos, Konstantinos Kirytopoulos, and Zoe Ventoura. "Project-as-Practice: Applying Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice on Project Managers." Project Management Journal 51, no. 6 (April 8, 2020): 599–616. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/8756972820913392.
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Researchers have not studied the human side of project managers thoroughly. Decision-making mechanisms lie not only in technocratic knowledge but also in practitioners’ inner cultures and personal lifestyles. Highlighting the human (f)actor behind the strategic decisions made in projects reveals a new path for analyzing project managers. This article applies Bourdieu’s practice theory within the field of project management through a qualitative study into 17 successful and experienced Greek project managers. The results exhibit the common social characteristics of successful project managers and suggest that project managers must be viewed from a sociological perspective as well.
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Skille, Eivind Åsrum. "The Norwegian sporting field reconsidered – the application of Bourdieu’s field theory on a pluralistic and blurred world." European Journal for Sport and Society 4, no. 2 (January 2007): 103–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16138171.2007.11687798.
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Warwick, Rob, Janet McCray, and Douglas Board. "Bourdieu’s habitus and field: implications on the practice and theory of critical action learning." Action Learning: Research and Practice 14, no. 2 (March 5, 2017): 104–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2017.1296409.
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Vega, Sharon Regina, Sivamurugan Pandian, and Nur Hafeeza Ahmad Pazil. "Comparison and Contrast between Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice and Shamsul’s Two Social Reality Approach in the Portrayal of Identity." Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH) 6, no. 7 (July 10, 2021): 293–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v6i7.869.
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This paper analyses Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, the concept field and habitus and Shamsul Amri’s Two Social Reality, the concept everyday- defined and authority-defined as both theories that function as analytical tools and have similar narratives based on the macro/micro and structure/agency linkage. A comparison and contrast of both theories were analysed to further understand the use of each theory. Findings within the article show both theories have a structural or authoritative emphasis however the theories differ in functionality with Bourdieu’s “Theory of Practice” focusing on power dynamics and social class through direct link between the habitus, field and capital whereas Shamsul’s Two Social Reality focuses on the formation of identity and ethnic dynamics in Malaysia based on the effect of colonialism in the authority-defined and everyday-defined sphere. The main goal of this paper serves to highlight both theories and its application when analysing and tackling different social phenomena and narratives in future research.
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Lüthje, Corinna. "Field-specific mediatization: Testing the combination of social theory and mediatization theory using the example of scientific communication." Mediatization Studies 1, no. 1 (November 13, 2017): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/ms.2017.1.45.
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<p>In contemporary media and communication science, mediatization is regarded as an “emerging paradigm”, but the term itself is diffuse and highly contingent. An attempt is made in this paper to integrate structural and individual concepts of mediatization theory by combining it with Bourdieu’s field theory using the example of science. After outlining the notion of mediatization underlying this text, the special features of scientific communication and the scientific field are presented. Hypotheses mentioned in the literature on the influence of new media technologies on science are contrasted with the state of research. This reveals that the impact of media innovations cannot be seen in a monocausal manner. In field-specific mediatization, they interact with various structural and individual elements.</p>
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Inghilleri, Moira. "Habitus, field and discourse." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 15, no. 2 (December 31, 2003): 243–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.15.2.03ing.
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Taking Toury’s model of norms as its starting point, this paper examines the macro–micro relationship evident within the context and culture of interpreting activity. The paper theorises this relationship drawing on Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field and Bernstein’s theory of pedagogic discourse. It proposes a model which directs the analysis of norms to the social dimension of language and cognition, as well as to the sociological and ideological determinants of what counts as a legitimate meaning in a particular context. The paper draws on the analysis of a particular context—the interpreted political asylum interview. However, it suggests the possibility of applying a similar theoretical model across a range of interpreting contexts.
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Bourdieu, Pierre. "Om interesser og den symbolske magts relative autonomi." Dansk Sociologi 16, no. 4 (November 27, 2005): 101–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v16i4.779.
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On Interests and the Relative Autonomy of Symbolic Power:
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This article is a rejoinder to different attempts to apply the framework of Bourdieu’s theory. In order to clarify the many misconceptions of his work, he spells out once again his notions of “interest“ and “strategy“ as being an integral part of his theory of habitus. The relation between habitus and the field(s) and social po¬sitions that produced it is explained as a sort of ontological complicity, a complicity that manifests itself in what is called the sense of the game, an in¬tentionality without intention, which functions as the principle of strategies devoid of strategic design. A major question of this article is various mis¬un¬derstandings concerning Bourdieu’s theory on the relative autonomy of symbolic power. To condense his argument: when he writes “knowledge“, his critics read connaissance connaissante, scholarly knowledge, conscious knowledge; the specific mode of thought of the scientist, is projected into the mind of the observed agents. This is what Bourdieu calls the scholastic fallacy: encouraged by the situation of scholé, the practical bracketing of the necessities of practice. Another reason for his critics misunderstanding Distinction is that they read the empirical analyses in a realist and substantialist way and thereby reduces, what Bourdieu un¬derstands as “the specific logic and autonomy of the symbolic order“, to a mere reflection of the social order. In the final section of the article he comments on the problem of social classes and a number of other specific question.
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Suyoga, I. Putu Gede, Made Adi Adi Widyatmika, and Ni Ketut Ayu Juliasih. "Bali Traditional Architecture: Sustainability from the Perspective of Capital Concept." International Journal of Interreligious and Intercultural Studies 3, no. 2 (December 3, 2020): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.32795/ijiis.vol3.iss2.2020.1090.
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This study aims to reveal the sustainability of Balinese traditional residential architectural practices which are based on the provisions of traditional ethnic Balinese social stratification and refers to the capital ownership in Generative Structural Theory from Pierre Bourdieu (economic, cultural, social and symbolic). At present, there are dynamics ownership and capital conversion in the traditional social strata which affect the sustainability of traditional residential architecture practices. The traditional Balinese residential architecture in this study is understood to be the spatial layout and traditional residential buildings of the Middle Bali era. Its sustainability today is seen from the concept of capital in the perspective of Bourdieu’s theory. The basic assumption of Bourdieu’s theory is basically that humans are in the field of social struggle to emerge victorious by competing with one another. This study is a qualitative research with interpretative descriptive method. Primary data were obtained from selected informants (purposive) and from field observations, as well as secondary data from the literature. The study findings show that traditional residential architecture practices in the Middle Bali era were strongly influenced by capital ownership (economic, cultural, social, and symbolic) with various forms of conversion to traditional Balinese aristocratic (triwangsa). Development at this time has opened the opportunity to control various capital for ordinary community (jabawangsa), so that the realm of Balinese traditional housing becomes a medium of struggle as well as a symbol of success in social struggle. On the other hand, the contestation of Balinese traditional residential architectural practices is a sustainability in the arena of social struggle within Balinese society today.
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Serafin, Marcin. "Cacophony of Contestation: Forms of Voice and the Warsaw Taxi Market as a Field of Struggles." European Journal of Sociology 57, no. 2 (August 2016): 259–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003975616000102.
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AbstractThis article analyses the political struggles in and around the Warsaw taxi market. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social fields and incorporating Albert Hirschman’s metaphor of political action as voice, I capture the position-taking of members of the taxi field, highlighting the different levels of involvement in the struggles. By distinguishing between different forms of voice—murmuring, jeering, whispering, hissing, grunting, and shouting—I show that the struggles that shape the Warsaw taxi market take the form of struggles over classifications and struggles over opportunities for exchange. I describe how market institutions are established and contested within the political field; enforced and contested within the bureaucratic field; and interpreted and contested within the juridical field. I thus contribute a field theory that investigates the links between fields and especially between economic fields and the state. This article draws on fieldwork conducted in Warsaw between November 2012 and June 2013.
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M. Almehmadi, Khulud. "The Genesis of the Translation of Children’s Classics: A Bourdieusian Account of ʿAbd al- Fattāḥ Ṣabrī’s Translation of Gulliver’s Travels (1909)." Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies 4, no. 4 (October 15, 2020): 97–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol4no4.8.
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Recently, Bourdieu’s sociological theory has been applied in translation studies. Based on Bourdieu’s assumption that individuals’ practices result from the interwoven relation between their habitus and the field in which they grow up and work, ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Ṣabrī’s translation of Gulliver’s Travels (1909) was chosen as a testing ground, through which this assumption will be proven or rejected. This paper aims to contribute to the growing area of sociological research by contextualizing this translation within its socio-cultural context. To carry out this analysis, Bourdieu’s concepts – field, habitus, and doxa – are used as research tools to understand the relationship between the decisions a translator makes at the micro-level and the stimuli at the macro-level. This entails examining the genesis of the field of children’s literature in Egypt during the late nineteenth century to identify the prevalent doxic practices that conditioned cultural productions. It also requires focussing on the socio-political factors that influenced the translator’s habitus. The analysis is expected to determine to what extent the decisions taken at the textual level were affected by both the prevalent doxic practices and the translator’s habitus. This research concludes that the habitus may exert powerful effects on the translator’s strategic decisions to a greater extent than the prevalent doxic practices in the field. Examining the influences of the translator’s habitus in the translation has produced some results worthy of further analysis. It may be possible to expand on this study by including different genres in the same field, such as fantasy books for children. The same sociological theory also could be applied to other genres outside the field of children’s literature, such as the translation of political books.
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Al-Mahdi, Osama. "Family-School Connections: Different Theoretical Perspectives and their Implications for Teacher Education." Humanities and Social Science Research 2, no. 4 (October 18, 2019): p13. http://dx.doi.org/10.30560/hssr.v2n4p13.
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Family-school connections had received increasing attention in the past decades due to their potential benefits for children’s learning. However, the educational and research community is still working to give a clear explanation for what family-school connections really stands for, which is understood to be a complicated concept. This paper begins by presenting different definitions of family-school connections. Afterwards it will discuss various theoretical perspectives in this educational area, which includes: Piaget cognitive development theory (Piaget, 1981), Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 1978), the funds of knowledge theory (Moll et al., 1992), Bourdieu’s social capital theory (Bourdieu, 1986), Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory (Velez-Agisto, et al., 2017), the overlapping family and school spheres (Epstein, 2011), Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler framework (Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler, 1995; 1997; 2005), and the structural and relational approach in understanding family-school connections (Kim & Sheridan, 2015). The paper concludes with a discussion about the implications of these theoretical perspectives on the research and educational field.
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Hayes, Adam S. "The Behavioral Economics of Pierre Bourdieu." Sociological Theory 38, no. 1 (March 2020): 16–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0735275120902170.
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This article builds the argument that Bourdieu’s dispositional theory of practice can help integrate the sociological tradition with three prominent strands of behavioral economics: bounded rationality, prospect theory, and time inconsistency. I make the case that the habitus provides an alternative framework to show how social and mental structure constitute one another, where cognitive tendencies toward irrationality can be either curtailed or amplified based on one’s position in the economic field and a person’s corresponding set of dispositions, ranging from more rational doxic dispositions to irrational allodoxic tendencies. Bridging economic sociology and behavioral economics, this work also bears on issues of persistent financial inequality reproduced through self-defeating patterns of economic behavior inculcated into individuals who occupy dominated positions in the social structure. Bourdieu’s thought, and in particular his conception of field+habitus, can usefully be applied to the empirical findings of behavioral economics to understand deviations from rational action as not only cognitive but also socially structured.
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Dufour, Caroline. "Administrative History and the Theory of Fields: Towards a Social and Political History of Public Administration." Administory 1, no. 1 (August 8, 2018): 124–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/adhi-2018-0007.
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Abstract This article explores how French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of fields, by encouraging a critical analysis of what the state does and produces, can bring a new perspective to studying the history of public administration. To do so, it explains how the theory can be used to perform historical analysis of public administration, and examine the case of the introduction of the merit system in the Canadian federal public administration to illustrate its perspective. The article concludes that the interplay among the theory’s core concepts – capital, field, and habitus – offers a reconceptualization of the study of administrative history that integrates historical, social, and political elements.
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Song, Gairong, and Ying Xu. "ANALYSIS ON INTERPRETATION CASES UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF PIERRE BOURDIEU’S THEORY OF PRACTICE –BY TAKING ZHANG LU’S INTERPRETATION OF PRIME MINISTER’S PRESS CONFERENCE DURING 2015-2019 AS EXAMPLES." Social Values and Society 2, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 13–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.26480/svs.01.2020.13.16.
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Combining the Field, Capital, Habitus of Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice with the interpretation of prime minister’s press conference during 2015 to 2019, the paper attempts to find out appropriate ways of professional interpreters and successful strategies on different occasions for improving the performance of interpreters. Some suggestions are given by analyzing the professional interpreter Zhang Lu’s performance.
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Song, Gairong, and Ying Xu. "ANALYSIS ON INTERPRETATION CASES UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF PIERRE BOURDIEU’S THEORY OF PRACTICE –BY TAKING ZHANG LU’S INTERPRETATION OF PRIME MINISTER’S PRESS CONFERENCE DURING 2015-2019 AS EXAMPLES." Social Values and Society 2, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 16–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.26480/svs.01.2020.16.19.
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Combining the Field, Capital, Habitus of Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice with the interpretation of prime minister’s press conference during 2015 to 2019, the paper attempts to find out appropriate ways of professional interpreters and successful strategies on different occasions for improving the performance of interpreters. Some suggestions are given by analyzing the professional interpreter Zhang Lu’s performance.
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Willig, Ida, Karen Waltorp, and Jannie Møller Hartley. "Field theory approaches to new media practices: An introduction and some theoretical considerations." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 31, no. 58 (May 13, 2015): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v31i58.20671.
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In this article introducing the theme of the special issue we argue that studies of new media practices might benefit from especially Pierre Bourdieu’s research on cultural production. We introduce some of the literature, which deals with the use of digital media, and which have taken steps to develop field theory in this context. Secondly, we present the four thematic articles in this issue and the articles outside the theme, which includes two translations of classic texts within communication and media research. This introduction article concludes by encouraging media scholars to embark on more studies within a field theory framework, as the ability of the comprehensive theoretical work and the ideas of a reflexive sociology is able to trigger the good questions, more than it claims to offer a complete and self-sufficient sociology of media and inherent here also new media.
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Craig, Geoffrey. "How Does A Prime Minister Speak?" Journal of Language and Politics 12, no. 4 (December 31, 2013): 485–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.12.4.01cra.
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This paper investigates how political subjectivity is framed and expressed through language use in television political interviews. The paper argues that Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field provide a useful framework for analyses of political subjectivity in news media interviews, but it also argues that the more sociological emphasis of Bourdieu’s theory cannot sufficiently account for the constitutive importance of discourse in the agency of the habitus and the boundaries and authority of different fields. As such, the analysis also draws on critical discourse analysis to demonstrate how Prime Ministerial discourse involves negotiations of different constitutive features of an individual subjectivity, and also negotiations between a particular habitus and the exigencies of the journalistic and political fields. Through an analysis of interviews of former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on influential Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) programmes, Insiders and the 7.30 Report, it is argued that the Prime Minister attempts to exercise political authority through an ensemble of discourses, initiating different relations with the interviewers, political colleagues and opponents, leading public figures in other fields, and the Australian public.
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Eide, Elisabeth. "The Empire and the Egyptians." Nordicom Review 27, no. 2 (November 1, 2006): 153–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0236.
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Abstract This article explores how three different analytical approaches to texts may work together to a certain extent in a critical approach to journalistic representation, in this case of the “non-western” world. Focusing on short news items dealing with the nationalist uprising in Egypt in 1919, the texts are analysed using critical discourse analysis, but also inspired by Said’s Orientalism critique, Bourdieu’s field theory including the notion of journalism as an autonomous field, albeit with a weak autonomy.
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Kamin, Tanja, and Thomas Anker. "Cultural capital and strategic social marketing orientations." Journal of Social Marketing 4, no. 2 (July 1, 2014): 94–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsocm-08-2013-0057.
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Purpose – The article aims to illuminate this issue by applying the cultural capital theory to the processes of health production and distribution. It questions social marketing’s role in addressing cultural resources as barriers to and/or facilitators of behavioural change. Social marketing is often criticized for its limited ability to enhance social goals and for aiding the reproduction of social inequalities. Design/methodology/approach – The theoretical framework of this conceptual paper is based on the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of human capital forms. It establishes an association between cultural capital and social marketing in solving social problems. Findings – All social marketing interventions affect cultural resources that people might use in the field of health. The findings endorse the utilization of cultural capital as a strategic analytical tool in social marketing. Practical implications – The article demonstrates how Bourdieu’s capital theory can be applied to help social marketers make important strategic decisions. In particular, it argues that using specific notions of embodied cultural capital and objectified cultural capital can inform decisions on adopting a downstream, midstream or upstream approach. Originality/value – A relatively neglected concept in the social marketing field is introduced: cultural capital. It aims to contribute to the theoretical debate with regard to strategic social marketing orientations.
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Zhang, Xizhi. "A Recollection of Chinese Bible Translation throughout History—A Sociological Study on Translation." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 10, no. 2 (March 1, 2019): 289. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1002.10.
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Under the guidance of Pierre Bourdieu’s reflective sociology theory with the three key concepts, ‘field’, ‘habitus’ and ‘capital’, the author engages in a sociological study of Chinese Bible translation over the past one thousand years by dividing the historical course of Chinese Bible translation into five stages: namely, germination, initiation, prosperity, transition and development, thus outlining the history of Chinese Bible translation.