Bourdieu in hyperspace: from social topology to the space of flows
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on Bourdieu's topological conception of social space to expand on it and develop an alternative model, which is based on the topology of social spaces.
Abstract: This article focuses on Bourdieu’s topological conception of social space to expand on it and develop an alternative model. Bourdieu describes social space as topological because it consists of a s...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of homonymity of homophily in the context of homomorphic data, and no abstracts are available.
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TL;DR: Digital culture is analysed as a nonmetric form specifically and criticized for leaving aside other social forms, most notably metric forms such as the flows of information connected with the operations of algorithms for instance.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the topic and the contributions and outline key elements of a research agenda on the digital transformation of social theory, which they call the digital reimension of the classics of our fields.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine how the concepts of social structure and social change are interpreted in sociological theory today and propose an alternative approach to articulate a more sophisticated model of social change, one that does not boil to an over-dramatic opposition between constraint and release from constraint.
Abstract: This paper examines how the concepts of social structure and social change are interpreted in sociological theory today. Social structures are commonly defined in opposition with agency and accordingly as constraints on action. Concomitantly, social change is understood as emancipation or the removal of such constraint through the exercise of agency (and for it). Against this common understanding, the paper develops an alternative approach so as first to articulate a more sophisticated model of social change, one that does not boil to an over-dramatic opposition between constraint and release from constraint, and second to distinguish between different types of social structures, metric and nonmetric, thereby making room for a variety of social changes depending on how structures interact with other structures. Le présent article porte sur les modes d'interprétation des concepts de structure sociale et de changement social dans la théorie sociologique actuelle. Les structures sociales sont généralement définies par opposition à l'agence et donc comme des contraintes sur l'action. Parallèlement, le changement social est compris comme l’émancipation ou la suppression d'une telle contrainte par l'exercice de l'agence (et pour elle). Prenant le contre-pied de cette compréhension commune, l'auteur de l'article élabore une nouvelle approche afin, d'une part, de formuler un modèle plus détaillé du changement social, qui ne se résume pas à une opposition radicale entre contrainte et libération de la contrainte, et, d'autre part, de faire la distinction entre différents types de structures sociales, métriques et non métriques, ce qui permet d'envisager une variété de changements sociaux en fonction de la manière dont les structures interagissent.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of homonymity of homophily in the context of homomorphic data, and no abstracts are available.
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TL;DR: The authors discusses the differences between the two types of relations and argues that interpersonal relations mediate and transform the effect of objective relations, which may help to further integrate Bourdieu's field theory and theory of practice.
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...Secondary literature on the operationalization of Bourdieu’s model (Anheier et al., 1995; Lebaron, 2009; Lebaron & Le Roux, 2013) or the compatibility between his research method (correspondence analysis) and other methods (De Nooy, 2003) confirms this....
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...In fact, Bourdieu dismisses this sort of trans-actionalism, notably because it tends to erase the weight of history or the legacy of the past (Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1992, p. 113, 136; De Nooy, 2003, pp. 317–319; see also Bottero & Crossley, 2011)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a relational criticism of the co-deterministic theory of M. Archer and identify five basic principles of relational sociology based on the study of complex and empirical trans-actions.
Abstract: This article presents a relational criticism of the “morphogenetic theory” of M. Archer. This theory is founded and representative of the most influential mode of perception of the social universe of the last few decades: co-determinism (structure ↔ agency). Co-determinism's influence can be explained by its integration of modern general presuppositions like freedom, individualism, and the quest for a new social order. By identifying five basic principles of relational sociology, we see that Archer's co-deterministic theory offers a complicated solution to avoid voluntarism and co-determinism, limits the potential of sociological imagination, cannot adequately see the fluidity of social processes, produces a certain reification of social structures and agency, and is based on an inconsistent use of egocentric and relational perspectives. These problems can be avoided if we use a relational approach (actor ↔ actor ⇒ structures) based on the study of complex and empirical trans-actions.
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TL;DR: The authors criticises the ontology of Margaret Archer's morphogenetic social theory, arguing that the concept of autonomous social structure on which she bases this social theory is contradictory, and tries to re-habilitate the interpretive tradition which Archer dismisses, showing that only this tradition provides a logically coherent and methodologically useful social ontology.
Abstract: This article criticises the ontology of Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic social theory, arguing that the concept of autonomous social structure on which she bases this social theory is contradictory. Against the ontological contradictions of Archer’s work, the article tries to re-habilitate the interpretive tradition which Archer dismisses, showing that only this tradition provides a logically coherent and methodologically useful social ontology, which consists only of individuals and their social relations.
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...Trans-actionalism eliminates the constraint exercised by social structures to replace it with the constraint exercised by actors on each other (King, 1999, 2006, 2007)....
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TL;DR: Bourdieu's approach is relational, agonistic, and synthetic; it spotlights the symbolic dimension of group formation as practical achievement while fusing theory and research, and it introduces multiple correspondence analysis as a statistical technique suited to grasping constellations of plural capitals as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Pierre Bourdieu’s recasting of the question of class exemplifies the major features of his sociology and the way he extends, melds, and mends classical views into a distinctive framework. Bourdieu’s approach is relational, agonistic, and synthetic; it spotlights the symbolic dimension of group formation as practical achievement while fusing theory and research, and it introduces multiple correspondence analysis as a statistical technique suited to grasping constellations of plural capitals. Bourdieu reformulates the problem of domination by questioning the ontological status of collectives and by forging tools for elucidating the politics of group-making: the sociosymbolic alchemy whereby a mental construct is turned into a historical reality through the inculcation of schemata of perception and their deployment to draw, enforce, or contest social boundaries. The article traces the impetus behind the key conceptual shifts Bourdieu effects, from class structure to social space, from class consciousness to ...
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...…of individuals happen to share the same conditions: it is up to the individuals themselves to present themselves as one group, while this self-styling process must be carried out by the concerned actors amidst the competition with other actors in the same field (Bourdieu, 1985; Wacquant, 2013)....
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...Individuals in similar positions may come to form a coherent group, even though groups remain contested entities (Wacquant, 2013)....
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