Quantifying Theory: Pierre Bourdieu

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Robson, Karen (Editor), Sanders, Chris (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Statistics.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

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 t...

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.