Blasius / Lebaron / Le Roux Empirical Investigations of Social Space

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-15387-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 15, 440 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Methodos Series

This book provides an in-depth view on Bourdieu’s  empirical work, thereby specially focusing on the construction of the social space and including the concept of the habitus. Themes described in the book include amongst others: •          the theory and methodology for the construction of “social spaces”,•          the relation between various “fields” and “the field of power”, •          formal construction and empirical observation of habitus, •          the formation, accumulation, differentiation of and conversion between different forms of capital,•          relations in geometric data analysis.The book also includes contributions regarding particular applications of Bourdieu’s methodology to traditional andnew areas of research, such as the analysis of institutional, international and transnational fields. It further provides a systematic introduction into the empirical construction of the social space.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blasius, Jörg

Lebaron, Frédéric

Le Roux, Brigitte

Schmitz, Andreas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction (Jörg Blasius , Frédéric Lebaron, Brigitte Le Roux & Andreas Schmitz.- PART I: Construction of the Social Space.- Chapter 1. The Social Space as Matrix Concept (Loïc Wacquant).- Chapter 2. At the Apex of Educational Capital: The Space of Secondary Education in the University Town of Uppsala (Ida Lidegran, Mikael Börjesson & Donald Broady).- Chapter 3. Similarity in Form, Difference in Capital The Structure of the Swedish Social Space and the Role of Educational Capital, 1990–2008 (Andreas Melldahl).- Chapter 4. A Place at what Table? An Analysis of Symbolic Capital Hierarchies at the Norwegian Central Bank’s Annual Dinner (Johs. Hjellbrekke & Olav Korsnes).- Chapter 5. Changes of Lifestyles in the Social Space (Jürgen Friedrichs & Jörg Blasius).- Chapter 6. The Social Space of mid-20th Century University Teachers in Sweden – The Case of Human Sciences (Tobias Dalberg).- Chapter 7. Nation-States as Fields (Andreas Schmitz, Daniel Witte & Heiko Heiberger).-Chapter 8. Capital Portfolios and Reproduction Strategies. Constructing the Social Space Based on Household Panel Data (Olaf Groh-Samberg & Nora Waitkus).- Chapter 9. Five Ways to Apprehend Classes (Stine Thidemann Faber, Annick Prieur, Lennart Rosenlund & Jakob Skjøtt-Larsen).- Chapter 10. Cultural Domains and Class Structure: Assessing Homologies and Cultural Legitimacy (Nicolas Robette & Olivier Roueff).- Chapter 11. The French Political Space after the Terror Attacks of Paris (Jean Ciché).- Chapter 12. Intergenerational Reproduction of Transnational and National Cultural Capital (Martin Munk).- Chapter 13. The Social Space of Norway (Magne Flemmen & Lennart Rosenlund).- PART II: Modeling Social Fields.- Chapter 14.The University within Academic Capitalism (Richard Münch).- Chapter 15. Economy in Crisis – Crisis of Economics? (Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg).- Chapter 16. Mapping the Public of a Literary Festival with MCA: the Specificity of Literary Capital (Myrtille Picaud, Jérôme Pacouret & Gisèle Sapiro).- Chapter 17. Transformations of the Danish Field of Welfare Work – Shifting Forms of Dominated Capital (Jan Thorhauge Frederiksen).- Chapter 18. Social Field and Market: How Social Groups Use Education in Times of Privatization (Håkan Forsberg, Mikael Palme & Mikael Börjesson).- Chapter 19. Investigating the Social Space of a Professional Group: the Case of Nursing (Michael Gemperle).- PART III: Methodology and Methods.- Chapter 20. Analyzing Evolutions from Barometer Data Using Correspondence Analysis after Data Doubling and Cluster Analysis: Application to the French “Barometer of Political Trust”(Brigitte Le Roux & Frédrik Cassor).- Chapter 21. The Geometry and Topology of Data and Information for Analytics of Processes and Behaviours: Building on Bourdieu and Addressing New Societal Challenges (Fionn Murtagh).- Chapter 22. Class-Specific Analysis. Methodological and Sociological Reflections (Frederic Lebaron &Philippe Bonnet).- Chapter 23. A Holistic and Modeling Framework to Analyze the Structure of Social Space (Ivaylo Petev).- Chapter 24. Biographical Illusion? Rethinking the Role of Biographical Research in Bourdieusian Social Theory (Ciaran Burke & Delyth Edwards).- Chapter 25. Establishing Correspondence Analysis in Sociology Training in the German Speaking Academia (Rainer Diaz-Bone & Katharina Manderscheid).- Chapter 26. Homology Hypothesis in France, Norway and Switzerland: Actuality of the Question and Methodological Challenges (Dominique Joye, Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund & Yannick Lemel).- Chapter 27. Using Geometric Data Analysis to construct International Spaces: The Case of “IB World Schools” (Leonora Dugonjic).- Chapter 28. Qualitative Methodology of Habitus Construction (Heinrich Schäfer, Leif Seibert & Adrian Tovar).

Über Autor(innen)

Jörg Blasius is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology, University of Bonn, Germany. His research interests are mainly focused on explorative data analysis, especially correspondence analysis and related methods, data collection methods, sociology of lifestyles, and urban sociology. Together with Simona Balbi (Naples), Anne Ryen (Kristiansand) and Cor van Dijkum (Utrecht), he is editor of the Sage Series “Survey Research Methods in the Social Sciences”. Together with Michael Greenacre (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) he founded Carme (Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods Network, see www.carme-n.org). From 1998 to 2016, he belonged to the Board of RC33 (Research Committee on Logic and Methodology in Sociology) of the ISA (International Sociological Association), from 2006 to 2010 he acted as President.Brigitte Le Roux is Maître de Conférences at the Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées (MAP5), CRNS (the French National Center for Scientific Research) Université Paris Descartes and associate researcher at the political research center of SciencesPo Paris (CEVIPOF/CNRS). She serves on the editorial board of the journal Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales. She completed her doctoral dissertation with Jean-Paul Benzécri in 1970 at the Faculté des Sciences de Paris. She has contributed to numerous theoretical research works and full-scale empirical studies involving geometric data analysis.Frederic Lebaron is professor at the chair of sociology at the Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and professor at the Sciences Po-Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He was Director of the Centre Universitaire de Recherches Administratives et Politiques de Picardie (CURAPP) from 2005-2013., and president of the Association Française de Sociologie between 2015 and 2017. His main research areas are political sociology, economic sociology, and quantitative methods of social sciences.He is currently working on the social determinants and the consequences of economic policies, like monetary, fiscal, and structural policies, especially within the context of the crisis in the Eurozone.Andreas Schmitz is a post-doc researcher at the University of Bonn. His research focuses on the elaboration of generalized field theory, principles of relational methodology and methods, and geometric data analysis. He is currently working on the theoretical conceptualization and empirical construction of the global field of power/meta field and on a political sociology of fear.