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Sociology in Question
Pierre Bourdieu,Richard Nice +1 more
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The Art of Standing Up to Words A Science that Makes Trouble The Sociologist in Question Are Intellectuals Out of Play? How Can Free-Floating Intellectuals' Be Set Free? For a Sociology of Sociologists The Paradox of the Sociologist What Talking Means Some Properties of Fields The Linguistic Market Censorship 'Youth' is Just a Word Music-Lovers Origin and Evolution of the Species The Metamorphosis of Tastes How Can Anyone Be a Sportsman? Haute Couture and Haute Culture But Who Created theCreators'? Public Opinion doesAbstract:
The Art of Standing Up to Words A Science that Makes Trouble The Sociologist in Question Are Intellectuals Out of Play? How Can `Free-Floating Intellectuals' Be Set Free? For a Sociology of Sociologists The Paradox of the Sociologist What Talking Means Some Properties of Fields The Linguistic Market Censorship 'Youth' is Just a Word Music-Lovers Origin and Evolution of the Species The Metamorphosis of Tastes How Can Anyone Be a Sportsman? Haute Couture and Haute Culture But Who Created the `Creators'? Public Opinion Does Not Exist Culture and Politics Strikes and Political Action The Racism of `Intelligence'read more
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Gender inequalities in academic innovation and enterprise: a Bourdieuian analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, a Bourdieuian approach is adopted to identify underlying structures and practices that have causal powers to generate gender-based inequalities in innovation and enterprise activity in SET departments within three UK universities.
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Generationing gender: Justice and the division of welfare
TL;DR: In this paper, the processes of generationing gender are examined along several intersecting dimensions: the reforming of women's citizenship in globalizing democracies, the shifting normativities for women that are generationed by the life course stages at which women intersect with changing state practices, and the changing socioeconomic relations of gendered generations and generationed gender in families, markets, and in society.
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Class Diversity and Youth Volunteering in the United Kingdom Applying Bourdieu’s Habitus and Cultural Capital
TL;DR: This paper used Bourdieu's theories of habitus and cultural capital to explain why there is a lack of class diversity in formal volunteering in the United Kingdom, finding that the pressure to meet targets forces workers to recruit middle-class young people whose habitus allows them to fit instantly into volunteering projects.
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Carving a Niche
TL;DR: Three Tanzanian businesswomen who have managed to enter the high-profit area of bulk exporting African blackwood (“ebony”) carvings show the successful use of a spread of ICT applications, and e-mail in particular, as crucial tools to build on existing networks and to maintain trust with wealthy foreign buyers.
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Field theory and educational practice: Bourdieu and the pedagogic qualities of local field positions in educational contexts
TL;DR: In this paper, a field theory for local educational action is outlined that more adequately accounts for the ways that students and educators directly experience and act upon curricular and pedagogic qualities in educational settings.