Showing papers on "Field (Bourdieu) published in 1989"

Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography

Abstract: Grade Level: 9-12 (and beyond) Learning Standards: WA State EALR 4 Music — The student makes connections within and across the arts (dance, music, theatre and visual arts), to other disciplines, life, cultures and work. 4.4) Understands how the arts influence and reflect cultures/civilizations, place and time Learning Objectives: (1) Understand and implement ethnographic research methods applied to a musical genre, (2) Determine and interpret specific attributes of music that shape culture and/or history, (3) Select and compare specific musical works that have shaped culture/history.

The semantic conception of theories and scientific realism

Abstract: Frederick Suppe has come to enjoy a position of undisputed leadership in the post-positivistic philosophy of science. Students of the field will therefore welcome publication of the present account of his views. The fourteen chapters derive from papers published since 1971, but which have been subje

Determinants of Influence in Organizational Buying: A Contingency Approach:

Abstract: The author investigates factors that affect an individual's influence in a buying center. A field investigation of 251 organizational purchase decisions suggests that expert power is the most impor...

In Search of Solutions: A New Direction in Psychotherapy

Abstract: Recognized leaders in the solution-oriented movement, O'Hanlon and Weiner-Davis provide guidelines for clinicians in implementing solution-oriented language and explain how to avoid dead ends. Now available in paperback, including new material to bring the reader up-to-date on advances in this growing field.

Structures of Discourse and Structures of Power

Abstract: This chapter examines some of the relationships between discourse and social power. After a brief theoretical analysis of these relationships, we review some of the recent work in this new area of research. Although we draw upon studies of power in several disciplines, our major perspective is found in the ways power is enacted, expressed, described, concealed, or legitimated by text and talk in the social context. We pay special attention to the role of ideology, but unlike most studies in sociology and political science, we formulate this ideological link in terms of a theory of social cognition. This formulation enables us to build the indispensable theoretical bridge between societal power of classes, groups, or institutions at the macro level of analysis and the enactment of power in interaction and discourse at the social micro level. Thus our review of other work in this field focuses on the impact of specific power structures on various discourse genres and their characteristic structures.

Philosophy of science and its discontents

Abstract: Fuller argues that philosophers of science need to take more seriously the psychological and sociological constraints on human rationality that make the production of knowledge an unavoidably imperfect enterprise. Includes a map of the field and question-and-answer discussion of the author's premi

The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric

Abstract: The field of economics proves to be a matter of metaphor and storytelling - its mathematics is metaphoric and its policy-making is narrative. Economists have begun to realize this and to rethink how they speak. This volume is the result of a conference held at Wellesley College, involving both theoretical and applied economists, that explored the consequences of the rhetoric and the conversation of the field of economics.

The sociology of medicine : a participant observer's view

Abstract: Provides a social, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective on health, illness, and medicine. Analyzes first-hand, participant observer-based, qualitative studies in the field.

Conflict Between Managers and Workers: The Role of Cooperation and Competition

Abstract: Deutsch's (1973) theory of cooperative and competitive goals was tested on the dynamics and outcomes of conflict in a field study involving two organizations in Singapore. Cooperative goals, effective interaction during the conflict, and prior strong work relationships were associated with positive outcomes. The results suggest reasons for cooperative versus competitive goals in conflicts, types of issues that provoke conflicts, and the role of procedures in conflicts. Deutsch's theory generalized to organizations in a non-Western society.

Knowing and acting : inquiry, ideology, and educational studies

Abstract: A reconstructed approach to teacher preparation emerges in this work. Beyer argues for the study of education as a liberating academic field of inquiry that is also concerned with practice and suggests that the split between liberal and applied education is not tenable.

The literary field: an empirical investigation of bourdieu's sociology of art:

Abstract: Bourdieu describes the structure of society as a result of class conflicts and status competition. Art in general, and the literary field in particular, is interpreted as a differentiated social field that is autonomous in the sense that it follows its own logic - the competition for cultural legitimation. What literature has in common with other social systems is the stratification of its internal structure into a hierarchical arrangement. Thus the literary field can be described as a horizontally differentiated system that is, however, vertically differentiated internally.The concern of the paper is to test Bourdieu's theoretical considerations empirically. Data for the analysis and interpretation are based on interviews of Cologne writers. The data are analysed with the aid of blockmodel and correspondence analysis. As far as the data allows us to operationalise the thesis that the literary field is an autonomous differentiated system, Bourdieu's thesis is confirmed. The internal structure can be descr...

Models of Work, Models of Leisure

Abstract: The social analysis of ‘leisure’ is not well developed. In part this reflects the area’s marginal status for sociology and Marxism, but this underdevelopment is also due to the failure of those who have been busy in the field to break out. Rather they seem to have been content to clear their own ground and map out the terrain, creating a fraternity of ‘leisure studies’.1 Recently, this contented community has been blasted by loud criticisms.2 Van Moorst, for example, argues that: Theories of leisure have been dogged by three major problems: a series of superficial concepts and spurious distinctions … a preoccupation with a desire to plan leisure… and, thirdly, partly as a result of these an inadequate theoretical base most frequently stemming from a functionalist framework.3

Aboriginal Peoples and Government Responsibility: Exploring Federal and Provincial Roles

Abstract: An examination of federal and provincial government responsibilities with respect to native peoples, these essays deal with the most appalling political football in Canadian politics. Specially commissioned experts in the field write on topics such as fiscal, legal and constitutional issues, and examine the circumstances of specific native groups in Canada.

Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History

Abstract: Graphic design has had a profound impact upon American life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Essays by specialists in the field examine areas that include graphic design's role as a social force as well as the effect of technological developments and political change.

The Field Instruction Contract

Abstract: This paper presents the concept of goal-oriented contract field instruction as a means for providing direction in and measurement of student learning in the field. After discussing the basic assumptions for contracting and the role of goals in learning, the paper presents an outline for the field instruction contract, with an illustrative example from both a clinical and an administrative setting. It concludes with an examination of the advantages and drawbacks of goal-oriented contracting in field instruction.

A Brief Note on Family Violence

Abstract: This paper presents a preliminary report of the results of a project investigating discourse used in research, treatment and theory in the area of family violence. An overview of the understandings of family professionals in the field is set forth. In addition, the results of the analysis of family violence discourse and the direction of future research are discussed.>

Retiree health benefits : field test of the FASB proposal

Abstract: Reading a book is also kind of better solution when you have no enough money or time to get your own adventure. This is one of the reasons we show the retiree health benefits field test of the fasb proposal as your friend in spending the time. For more representative collections, this book not only offers it's strategically book resource. It can be a good friend, really good friend with much knowledge.

Culture, Art, and Literature in Chile: 1973-1985

Abstract: Chile has been under military authoritarian rule since 1973. During this time, new cultural expressions, both rich and complex, have appeared. Now, after 15 years, these developments can be evaluated from a broad perspective' and a synthesis can be offered. The present work is an interdisciplinary approach that examines some aspects of high, formal, or learned culture. In Chile, as in any other national case, cultural production implies a specific, professional, and autonomous field. The results of this research are presented and organized in different artistic areas that are to be understood as relatively autonomous fields within a larger social and cultural context. Each artistic area exhibits characteristic modes of production, exchange, and consumption of specific meanings.2 Culture is understood here as a continuous production of meaning by means of human activity. The symbolic levels of any society are constituted by a set of semiautonomous cultural fields that are nevertheless in interaction with each other. The actual agents of these cultural areas are the intellectuals who set in motion diverse institutions by means of communicational processes in which cultural and aesthetic signs are produced, exchanged, and consumed.3 Consequently, culture is defined here as a multidimensional phenomenon, as a way of life of a people, and as complex communication processes. There is no social experience outside the universe or domain of culture. Each national culture is a system of signifying systems.made up of several social codes containing already accumulated data. This polyphony of sign systems organizes the world for people. Culture, the collective self of a community, its social identity, is in a constant process of articulation and disarticulation. It functions as a multiple structure, a dynamic polyglotism in which each field (theater, painting, music, fiction, poetry) contains different modes of cultural and artistic production. Such is the case in today's Chilean social formation.4

Story and Savigny

Abstract: Joseph Story and Friedrich Carl von Savigny were both born in 1779. Story died shortly before his 66th birthday. Savigny was 82 years old when he passed away in 1861. As they were both the same age, they faced basically the same situation in the area of private international law, although their works in the field were published fifteen years apart (Story, 1834; Savigny, 1849). On the European continent there was a flood of scholarly literature marked by disagreement, and a case law dating back more than 200 years' that was poorly developed and did not enjoy a high reputation. In England and the United States there were almost no scholarly works, but there was an extensive collection of court decisions approximately 100 years old. In the "Index of Cases cited" of Story's Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws (1834) Nadelmann counted 506 cases, out of which 216 are English, 8 Scottish and 282 American.2

The Interpersonal Model

Abstract: As is well known, the field of psychiatry is divided into various theoretical schools—biological, psychoanalytic, behavioral, and interpersonal. Following upon the ideas of Kuhn, the author has interpreted these theoretical schools as competing paradigms. These paradigms define alternative approaches for understanding the nature of the mind in relationship to health and illness. Almost all of the paradigms approach the problem of depression in some manner, and differ in the extent to which they regard clinical depression as different from normal depressive mood; in the relative emphasis they give to social, biological, and developmental factors in the causation of mental illness; and even as to the validity of the concept of mental illness itself.