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Bourdieu in hyperspace: from social topology to the space of flows
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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...read more
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Géométrie du champ
TL;DR: The notion de champ a fait l'objet d'un travail de formalisation implicite depuis que Pierre Bourdieu a developpe, dans les annees 1960 and 1970, une approche relationnelle de l'espace social as mentioned in this paper.
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How Not to Structure a Social Theory: A Reply to a Critical Response
TL;DR: The Structure of Social Theory (SOS) as discussed by the authors is an ontology of social relations that prioritizes human social relations against ontological dualism, and it has been used to re-affirm Stueber's criticisms.
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Conceptualizing globalization in terms of flows
PJ Rey,George Ritzer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review a rich history of thought pertaining to flows, especially flows, and call attention to some long-debated philosophical questions that inform how a theory of flows and structures can be applied to our contemporary globalized world.
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Functional Systems as Metric Forms and Institutions as Non-metric Forms: A Neo-Luhmannian Approach:
TL;DR: In this article, a new pair of fundamental concepts, metric and non-metric, are proposed to describe the properties of social forms arising in a crowd of individuals functioning as a medium of communication, based on a signal activated by the circulation of individuals inside the crowd and thus creating a modulating flow.
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