Pierre Bourdieu

Maton, K. (2003) Reflexivity, relationism and research: Pierre Bourdieu and the epistemic conditions of social scientific knowledge, Space & Culture, 6(1): 52-65.

by Legitimation Code Theory

Maton, K. (2005) The sacred and the profane: The arbitrary legacy of Pierre Bourdieu, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 8(1): 121-132.

by Legitimation Code Theory

Maton, K. (2005) A question of autonomy: Bourdieu’s field approach and policy in higher education, Journal of Education Policy 20(6): 687-704.

by Legitimation Code Theory

How to Become an Iconic Social Thinker: The Intellectual Pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault

by Dominik Bartmanski

Published in European Journal of Social Theory

The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure... more The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under which social thinkers assume the iconic reputation. What does it take to become ‘a founding father’ of a humanistic discipline? How do social thinkers achieve the status of a trans-disciplinary star? Why some intellectuals attract tremendous attention and ‘go down in history’ despite personal and professional failures, while others enjoy only limited recognition or simply sink into oblivion, even if they have met all the standards of their day? Quite a few sociologists have tackled this elusive issue. Pierre Bourdieu, Michele Lamont and Randall Collins are among those who fleshed out strong explanatory frameworks. This project adds to this body of knowledge by emphasizing cultural factors that these authors downplayed in their seminal accounts, despite being aware of their significance. By showing why these underdeveloped aspects of their works need to be incorporated into the debate and how this can be achieved, this article introduces a new theorization of the iconic, lasting intellectual reputation substantiated by evidence from the lifeworks of Bronislaw Malinowski and Michel Foucault. As such, it aims, minimally, to make sociology of knowledge decisively ‘cultural’. Maximally, it seeks to demonstrate that the iconic success of intellectual intervention in social theory depends on carefully performed and contingently mediated engagement with the binary systems of symbolic classification.

Ein Objekt, das sich verweigert: Der Journalismus in der Soziologie Pierre Bourdieus

by Gilles Bastin

Disposed to Unsustainability?

by Ingmar Lippert

published as I. Lippert. Disposed to unsustainability? ecological modernisation as a techno-science enterprise with conflicting normative orientations. In A. Bammé, G. Getzinger, and B. Wieser, editors, Yearbook 2009 of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, pages 275–290. Profil, München, 2010.

Pierre Bourdieu y la filosofía

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

La tension infinie entre l'histoire et la raison: Foucault et Bourdieu

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Pierre Bourdieu: La sociología como crítica de la razón

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Continuing professional development through reflexive networks: Disrupting online communities of practice

by Gurmit Singh

Singh, G., McPherson, M. & Sandars, J. (2012). Continuing professional development through reflexive networks: Disrupting online communities of practice. Paper presented at ProPEL International Conference 2012, University of Stirling, UK, May 2012.

Taste Regimes and Market-Mediated Practice

by Zeynep Arsel

Co-authored with Jonathan Bean. Forthcoming in Feb 2013.

Taste has been conceptualized as a boundary making mechanism, yet there is limited theory on how it enters into daily... more Taste has been conceptualized as a boundary making mechanism, yet there is limited theory on how it enters into daily practice. In this paper, we develop a practice-based framework of taste through qualitative and quantitative analysis of a popular home design blog, interviews with blog participants, and participant observation. First, we define a taste regime as a discursively constructed normative system that orchestrates practice in an aesthetically oriented culture of consumption. Taste regimes are perpetuated by marketplace institutions such as magazines, web sites and transmedia brands. Second, we show how a taste regime regulates practice through continuous engagement. By integrating three dispersed practices—problematization, ritualization, and instrumentalization—a taste regime shapes preferences for objects, the doings performed with objects, and what meanings are associated with objects. This study demonstrates how aesthetics is linked to practical knowledge and becomes materialized through everyday consumption.

Pierre Bourdieu and the Distinctive Body

by Nadeem Fayaz

Symbol, Thought, Action: A Semiotic Approach to the Deterritorialization of Uyghur Resistance

by Michael Caster

'Tristan chords and random scores': exploring undergraduate student experiences of music in higher education through the lens of Bourdieu

by Gwen Moore

Within a theoretical framework drawn from Bourdieu, this article explores the relationship between undergraduate... more Within a theoretical framework drawn from Bourdieu, this article explores the relationship between undergraduate students' experiences of music in higher education and their musical backgrounds and prior music education experiences. More critically, this study aims to discover whether ideologies surrounding musical value impact on the student experience in higher education. A survey of undergraduate students of music (N=60) at a higher education music department in the Republic of Ireland was conducted. Preliminary data suggest that students' musical habitus and cultural capital impact on their experience of music within the field of higher education. Implications of findings from this study suggest a reappraisal of curricula and assessment at secondary level and of musical value and curriculum content in Irish higher education.

Cultural capital and tastes: the persistence of Distinction

by David Wright

Chapter 26 in Hall, J.R., Grindstaff, L and Ming-Cheng, L (eds) (2010) Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Routlegde: New York: 275-284

Playing public health: Building the HIVe

by Christopher Walsh

with Thomas Apperley

In thinking through the impact of digital media on how frontline workers, activists, practitioners and researchers... more In thinking through the impact of digital media on how frontline workers, activists, practitioners and researchers understand and fight HIV and AIDS, it is important to acknowledge that digital media does not only provide new channels and strategies for communicating information around HIV prevention and education. It also establishes innovative domains for conceiving of, and building, ‘resilient communities’ like The HIVe. Such digital interventions are cultural assets that confront biomedical and behavioural approaches to HIV prevention and education. Immersive and social technologies, network ubiquity and low cost mobile phones provide new tools for aggregating, representing, collecting and disseminating community-based and led data that ‘plays’ public health differently. This play involves fore-fronting the success of social science HIV prevention and education against the essentialist logic of dominant biomedical approaches. ‘Playing public health’ provides an entirely new and comprehensive picture of the agency of the HIV virus that goes beyond the pathology of the individual.  This paper proposes the goal of putting HIV prevention back into the ‘game’ of public health and playing it to win by building The HIVe.

High-rise Dubai: urban entrepreneurialism and the technology of symbolic power

by Michele Acuto

Twenty-first century metropolises are often engaged in a rivalry for primacy in many different geographical scales.... more Twenty-first century metropolises are often engaged in a rivalry for primacy in many different geographical scales. Dubai, a relatively new urban settlement, is not immune from such endeavor. The Emirate has undertaken an impressive urban revolution in a rather explicit attempt to become a novel New York. This viewpoint explores the present evolution of the city, illustrating how a centralized and hyper-entrepreneurial approach has characterized Dubai’s attempt to ascend in the ‘world urban hierarchy’ and establish itself as the image of the 21st century metropolis. Contrary to much of the eulogistic take that often features in city rankings, an analysis of this venture through the city’s contemporary urban restructuring unveils the problematic social effects of Dubai’s quest for “symbolic power” – that technique of ‘worldmaking’ that confers influence by constituting the given by stating and mediating it. The compulsive sprawl of ‘icons’ and ‘vertical cities’ associated with this practice might set the Emirate on a perilous course with disastrous social consequences. In this view, the article draws upon some of the most astonishing works-in-progress of this city – and the Burj Dubai in primis – to explain the complexity of this power, and the many contradictions that can arise with it as quickly as Dubai’s skyscrapers.

Transforming identities and enacting agency: the discourses of participatory development in training South African adult educators

by Caroline Kerfoot

Bourdieu, Boswell and the Baroque Body: Cultural Choreography in 'Fuenteovejuna'

by Laura Vidler

published in Comedia Performance. 9.1 (2012). Print. 38-64

Le réseau des revues d’idées au Québec : esquisse d’une recherche en cours

by Jean-Pierre Couture

Couture, J.P., Bernier-Renaud, L. et St-Louis, J.C., «Le réseau des revues d’idées au Québec : esquisse d’une problématique en cours», Globe. Revue internationale d'études québécoises , 14 2, 2011, 27 pages, sous presse.

This article demonstrates that it is possible to map the network of Québec’s political journals. Through a... more This article demonstrates that it is possible to map the network of Québec’s political journals. Through a bibliometric analysis, we reveal the configurations of the leading figures in these journals and the use and dissemination of authors that are quoted. More specifically, we ask: who are the authors writing in these journals, and what sources do they cite in order to defend their intellectual enterprises? By answering these questions, our contribution seeks to bring to light the very structure of this intellectual field, measuring the importance of each journal participating in the conversations taking place within the network. In identifying the core components of these networks, we will be able to identify the ideological gateways that form the clusters of journals competing for hegemonic positions. This research hopes to objectively reveal the positions of each journal and bring forward new hypotheses that might help further content analysis and interpretation