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

Jean-Sébastien Guy
- 05 Oct 2018 - 
- Vol. 28, Iss: 3, pp 510-523
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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.
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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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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

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Conceptualizing globalization in terms of flows

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:

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