Bourdieu in hyperspace: from social topology to the space of flows

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Bourdieu in hyperspace: from social topology to the space of flows

Jean-Sébastien Guy¹•Institutions (1)

Dalhousie University¹

05 Oct 2018-International Review of Sociology (Routledge)-Vol. 28, Iss: 3, pp 510-523

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.

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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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Social structures, social change and the metric/nonmetric distinction

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13 Jul 2022-Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

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.

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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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How Bourdieu “Quantified” Bourdieu: The Geometric Modelling of Data

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Frédéric Lebaron¹•Institutions (1)

University of Picardie Jules Verne¹

01 Jan 2009

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Bourdieu’s Relational Method in Theory and in Practice: From Fields and Capitals to Networks and Institutions (and Back Again)

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John W. Mohr

01 Jan 2013

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Abstract: One of Pierre Bourdieu’s key meta-theoretical assertions is that sociologists should embrace a relational rather than a substantialist approach. On the first page of Practical Reason, Bourdieu describes “what I believe to be most essential in my work” (1998, p. vii) by pointing to two fundamental qualities, a specific philosophy of action (articulated in his inter-related suite of concepts—field, habitus, and capital) and a particular philosophy of science “that one could call relational in that it accords primacy to relations” (p. vii). Bourdieu explains, “I refer here … to the opposition suggested by Ernst Cassirer between ‘substantial concepts’ and ‘functional or relational concepts’ ” (p. 3).2 According to Bourdieu, a substantialist approach privileges things rather than relations and, as such, has a tendency to reify the social order, to essentialize social phenomena, and to embody a positivist orientation to social research. In contrast, Bourdieu holds up the ideal of a relational analysis. A key tenet of Bourdieu’s relationalism is that objects under investigation are seen in context, as a part of a whole. Their meaningfulness is determined not by the characteristic properties, attributes, or essences of the thing itself, but rather with reference to the field of objects, practices, or activities within which they are embedded.

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"Bourdieu in hyperspace: from social..." refers background in this paper

...…Jean-Sébastien Guy jsguy@dal.ca Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building, Dalhousie University, Room 1128, 6135 University Avenue, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada Fogle, 2011; Jenkins, 2002, p. 86; Mohr, 2013)....
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, fourth edition, 50th anniversary:

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...Science does not progress by uncovering the Truth with a capital T, but moves from one problem to another (Kuhn, 2012)....
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Why I am not an Individualist

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Anthony King¹•Institutions (1)

University of Exeter¹

01 Jun 2007-Journal for The Theory of Social Behaviour

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Abstract: In his defence of emergence, David Elder-Vass assumes that my hermeneutic position represents a form of individualism. Although a common reading of my position, the claim that I am in individualist is incorrect; I, too, recognize the centrality of collective phenomena to social reality. In fact, there is a close convergence between emergence and the hermeneutic sociology I advocate. However, there also remains an important divide between us. Despite his care to avoid reification, Edler-Vass descends into ontological dualism, conceptualizing society in terms of structure and agency.

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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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The Spatial Logic of Social Struggle: A Bourdieuian Topology

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Nikolaus Fogle

07 Apr 2011

TL;DR: Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Social Topology Chapter 3 Chapter 2. The Structures of Physical Space Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The Dialect of Social Space and Physical Space and Creative Destruction in Urban Care.

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Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Social Topology Chapter 3 Chapter 2. The Structures of Physical Space Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The Dialect of Social Space and Physical Space Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Creative Destruction in Urban Care Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Deconstructionist Architecture and Social Reproduction

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"Bourdieu in hyperspace: from social..." refers background in this paper

...Can we not admit other types of social space?...
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...Specifically, I want to exploit his concept of social space defined as social topology (Bourdieu, 1985, p. 196, 1990a, p. 126, 1991, p. 229, 1998, p. 32, 2000, p. 134; see also Anheier, Gerhards, & Romo, 1995, p. 860; © 2018 University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ CONTACT Jean-Sébastien Guy jsguy@dal.ca Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building, Dalhousie University, Room 1128, 6135 University Avenue, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada Fogle, 2011; Jenkins, 2002, p. 86; Mohr, 2013)....
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...Jean-Sébastien Guy is assistant professor in the department of sociology and social anthropology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada....
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...…Jean-Sébastien Guy jsguy@dal.ca Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building, Dalhousie University, Room 1128, 6135 University Avenue, PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada Fogle, 2011; Jenkins, 2002, p. 86; Mohr, 2013)....
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