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The reflexive habitus: Critical realist and Bourdieusian social action
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The authors reworks Bourdieu's theory of habitus by suggesting that social selves are always situated at the intersection of multiple and competing social locations (or field positions) and that the habitus itself is always layered.Abstract:
The critical realist and Bourdieusian conceptions of action fundamentally disagree on a number of fronts: the synthetic versus dualistic relationship between structure and agency; the social nature of the self/body; the link between morphogenesis and reflexivity. Despite these differences, this article argues that re-reading Bourdieu’s theories with attention to some of the core tenets of critical realism (emergence, the stratification of reality, and conjunctural causality) can provide insights into how the habitus is capable of reflexivity and social change. In particular, this article reworks Bourdieu’s theory of habitus by suggesting that social selves are always situated at the intersection of multiple and competing social locations (or field positions) and that the habitus itself is always layered. Reflexivity arises from horizontal disjunctures (between field positions) and vertical disjunctures (across temporal sedimentation).read more
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Academic Habitus and Institutional Change: Comparing Two Generations of German Scholars
Hildegard Matthies,Marc Torka +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the habitus formations of two generations of German scholars before and after institutional changes gained pace in Germany, and identify three distinct habits: self-fulfilling, self-surpassing, and self-asserting.
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Bridging the cultural divide? Exploring school pupils’ perceptions of medicine
TL;DR: The present study looks anew at the perceptions of medicine held by school pupils from non‐traditional backgrounds to assess whether sociocultural factors remain a major barrier to medicine.
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Reflexive dialogues: interaction and writing as external components of personal reflexivity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the exercise of reflexive competences is not limited to the privacy of individual minds, but that there is also an external component, which can lend the concept a broader analytical scope.
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Turning inward: Tocqueville and the structuring of reflexivity
TL;DR: The authors argue that the dominant view of reflexivity in contemporary social science is overly decontextualized, despite the value that reflexivity scholars have placed on the dynamic and active nature of individual thought and action.
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Theorizing the Religious Habitus in the Context of Conversion to Islam among Polish Women of Catholic Background
TL;DR: In this paper, the conversion process of Polish women of Catholic background to Islam is explored, and the authors make a case for extending the discussion on habitus transformation by drawing attention to what they term a "translation" of religious beliefs and practices.
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