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From sociological fictions to social fictions: some Bourdieusian reflections on the concepts of ‘institutional habitus’ and ‘family habitus’
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In this article, the authors express serious reservations regarding the increasingly popular Bourdieu-inspired notions of institutional habitus and family habitus in education research, arguing that they threaten not only to overstretch and reduce the explanatory power of the French thinker's concepts but also stifle analysis of the kinds of struggles and complexities that both he and the researchers in question spotlight.Abstract:
This paper expresses serious reservations regarding the increasingly popular Bourdieu‐inspired notions of ‘institutional habitus’ and ‘family habitus’ in education research. Although sympathetic to the overall theoretical approach and persuaded of the veracity and importance of the empirical findings they are used to illuminate, it argues that, from a Bourdieusian point of view, they actually present several difficulties that threaten not only to overstretch and reduce the explanatory power of the French thinker’s concepts but to stifle analysis of the kinds of struggles and complexities that both he and, somewhat contradictorily, the researchers in question spotlight. Bourdieu had his own ways of making sense of the themes raised, and although there is indeed a need to push him further than he went, to say what he did not and to emphasise what he would not, this has to be guided by consistent logic and not simply pragmatic empiricism.read more
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The Context and Genesis of Musical Tastes: Omnivorousness Debunked, Bourdieu Buttressed
TL;DR: The authors argued that musical tastes are increasingly "omnivorous" in character, at least amongst the privileged, and that this can be explained via the quasi-Bourdieusian notion of a new "open" or "cosmopolitan disposition".
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"Not Designed for Us": How Science Museums and Science Centers Socially Exclude Low-income, Minority Ethnic Groups.
TL;DR: An analysis of exclusion fromscience learning opportunities during visits alongside participants’ attitudes, expectations, and conclusions about participation in ISE suggests ISE practices were grounded in expectations about visitors’ scientific knowledge, language skills, and finances in ways that were problematic for participants and excluded them from science learning opportunities.
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Parenting priorities and pressures: furthering understanding of ‘concerted cultivation’
Carol Vincent,Claire Maxwell +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the purposes of a planned and intentional parenting style for different middle-class groups, highlighting that social class fraction, ethnicity, and also individual family disposition, guides understandings of the purpose of enrolling children in particular enrichment activities.
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Being strategic, being watchful, being determined: Black middle-class parents and schooling
TL;DR: This article investigated the differences that are apparent between respondent parents in their levels of involvement with regard to schools and concluded that, within a broadly similar paradigm of active involvement with and monitoring of schools, nuanced differences in parental strategising reflect whether academic achievement is given absolute priority within the home.
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood.
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Language and Symbolic Power
Pierre Bourdieu,John B. Thompson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the economy of language exchange and its relation to political power is discussed. But the authors focus on the production and reproduction of Legitimate language and do not address its application in the theory of political power.
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Phenomenology of Perception
TL;DR: Carman as discussed by the authors described the body as an object and Mechanistic Physiology, and the experience of the body and classical psychology as a Sexed being, as well as the Synthesis of One's Own Body and Motility.
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Reproduction in education, society and culture
TL;DR: The Second Edition of Bourdieu's Theory of Symbolic VIOLENCE as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays about the foundation of a theory of symbolic violence and its application in higher education.