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  title info:
    title: Quantifying Theory: Pierre Bourdieu
  name:
    name part: Robson, Karen.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sanders, Chris.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 228 p. online resource.
  abstract: Pierre Bourdieu’s contributions to the theory and practice of social research are 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 from all 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. Throughout the volume, issues of the possible interpretations of concepts and measurement validity are focused upon in a language that can be appreciated by new and experienced researchers alike. This volume is useful for courses where the linkage between theory and research is emphasized, at both the upper undergraduate and general postgraduate level. In addition to serving as a teaching tool, the articles within the volume will be invaluable to any scholar interested in working with Bourdieu’s concepts in quantitative research.
  table of contents: Introduction: Approaches to Quantifying Bourdieu -- How Bourdieu “Quantified” Bourdieu: The Geometric Modelling of Data -- Quantifying the Field of Power in Norway -- The Homology Thesis: Distinction Revisited -- Transmutations of Capitals in Canada: A ‘Social Space’ Approach -- The Cumulative Impact of Capital on Dispositions Across Time: A 15 Year Perspective of Young Canadians -- The Influence of Cultural Capital on Educational and Early Labour Market Outcomes of Young People in Australia -- Teenage Time Use as Investment in Cultural Capital -- Cultural Capital and Access to Highly Selective Education: The Case of Admission to Oxford -- Applying Bourdieu's Concepts of Social and Cultural Capital in Educational Research in Greece and Cyprus -- Occupational Structures: The Stratification Space of Social Interaction -- Women's Work and Cultural Reproduction: An Analysis of Non-Wage Labour in Central Ontario, 1861 -- Quantifying Social Class: A Latent Clustering Approach -- Changing Determinants of Consumption in Hungary, 1982–1998 -- Fanship Habitus: The Consumption of Sport in the US -- Quantifying Habitus: Future Directions.
  note: edited by Karen Robson, Chris Sanders.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Methodology of the Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  subject:
    topic: Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law
  classification: H61-61.95
  classification: 300.1
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