Open Access
The epistemological tradition in French sociology
Donald Broady
- pp 97-119
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The authors discuss the epistemological underpinnings of one distinctly French sociological enterprise, that of Pierre Bourdieu and his collaborators, and demonstrate its intimate connections to the so-called historical epistemology represented by Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, Jean Cavaillès and others.Abstract:
My talk is announced under a vast heading. Today’s French sociology is most diversified. From a foreigners point of view much of it appears more American than French, which means that it is closely related to dominating sociological schools in the Scandinavian countries. I am, though, going to discuss the epistemological underpinnings of one distinctly French sociological enterprise, that of Pierre Bourdieu and his collaborators. My aim is to demonstrate its intimate connections to the so called historical epistemology, i.e. the tradition in French philosophy of science represented by Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, Jean Cavaillès and others. I will also make a few remarks on the reception of Bourdieu’s work in the Anglo-Saxon sphere of influence.read more
Citations
More filters
Book
The Dialogical Mind: Common Sense and Ethics
TL;DR: In this paper, Markova presents an ethics of dialogicality as an alternative to the narrow perspective of individualism and cognitivism that has traditionally dominated the field of social psychology.
Dissertation
Disciplined reasoning: Styles of reasoning and the mainstream-heterodoxy divide in Swedish economics
TL;DR: The authors argue that the mainstream-heterodoxy divide is fruitfully understood in terms of the institutionalised stabilisation of a disciplinary style of reasoning, and show how economists understand their scientific approach and its merits.
Dissertation
Walking in Late Capitalism - Dialectic of Aestheticization and Commodification
Halg Bieri,Anja Kerstin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the socio-economic and cultural context that brought forth the aestheticized forms of walking such as walking in designed walkable places and walking as art.
Journal ArticleDOI
The curse of bureaucratisation or the blessings of professionalisation? Nurses’ engaged adoption of quality management in hybrid managerial positions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply a Bourdieusian and ethnographic approach to examine nurses' enthusiastic involvement in quality management as they take up hybrid managerial positions in an acute care department.
Journal ArticleDOI
Emergence of Nordic nursing research: no position is an Island.
TL;DR: It is concluded that one cannot speak of nursing research in the Nordic countries as a fully developed and autonomous field, yet one can see the outlines of an emerging nursing research field with a common doxa.
References
More filters
Book
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
TL;DR: In this article, a social critic of the judgement of taste is presented, and a "vulgar" critic of 'pure' criticiques is proposed to counter this critique.