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Field (Bourdieu)
About: Field (Bourdieu) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11421 publications have been published within this topic receiving 180769 citations.
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TL;DR: This Finnish study conducted five focus group discussions with a total of 34 participants whose ages ranged from 65 to 85 and analysis of the data employed the concepts developed by Pierre Bourdieu.
Abstract: This paper focuses on how older people construct themselves as users of medical drugs, and on what factors are important in medication from the user’s point of view. The data of the study consist of focus group discussions about medication with people aged over 65 years. The analysis was based upon Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of social field and habitus. The main actors appearing in the discussions were users and doctors. Pharmacists had only a marginal role as suppliers of medical drugs. It was clearly important for the participants to express their appreciation towards doctors, the dominant actors in the field of medication. The most important theme in the discussions, however, was the independence of the users themselves. By assuming responsibility for the use of their medication and by applying their own initiative, these older people were able to gain a meaningful position in the field of medication. The habitus of a patient in the health care setting is a compliant patient. The habitus outside health care, on the other hand, requires that people are active and reasonable users. In individual practices it is possible to detect logics of both sides of habitus.
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TL;DR: Analysis of adjacency matrices is found especially useful for diagnosing formal organizational arrangements, for identifying coalitions, and for analyzing intergroup relations.
Abstract: This article uses cases from the field to demonstrate the potential of network analysis as an intervention tool. Social networks are defined as sets of contacts linking individuals. These networks ...
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01 Sep 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, a history of theological, philosophical, legal, and popular arguments for the viability of capital punishment is presented by an authority in the field, who shows how capital punishment has been ineffective and thus implicitly argues for its elimination.
Abstract: This is a history of theological, philosophical, legal and popular arguments for the viability of capital punishment, by an authority in the field. The book shows how capital punishment has been ineffective and thus implicitly argues for its elimination. The author says no kind of history like this has ever before done.
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