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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: The authors argue that the failure of certain theories of reflexive identity transformation to consider more fully issues connected to gender identity leads to an overemphasis on the expressive part of identity transformation.
Abstract: This article argues that the failure of certain theories of reflexive identity transformation to consider more fully issues connected to gender identity leads to an overemphasis on the expressive p...
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TL;DR: In this article, case studies of nine working-class students at Southern, an elite university in the US, were used to understand the complexities of identities in flux through Bourdieu's notions of habitus and field, and the challenge of the unfamiliar results in a range of creative adaptations and multi-faceted responses.
Abstract: This article draws on case studies of nine working-class students at Southern, an elite university. 1 It attempts to understand the complexities of identities in flux through Bourdieu’s notions of habitus and field. Bourdieu (1990a) argues that when an individual encounters an unfamiliar field, habitus is transformed. He also writes of how the movement of habitus across new, unfamiliar fields results in ‘a habitus divided against itself ’ (Bourdieu, 1999a). Our data suggest more nuanced understandings in which the challenge of the unfamiliar results in a range of creative adaptations and multi-faceted responses. They display dispositions of self-scrutiny and self-improvement — almost ‘a constant fashioning and re-fashioning of the self ’ but one that still retains key valued aspects of a working-class self. Inevitably, however, there are tensions and ambivalences, and the article explores these, as well as the very evident gains for working-class students of academic success in an elite HE institution.
710 citations
TL;DR: More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor as mentioned in this paper is a field guide to poetry and its application in the field of metaphorical activity, which is also related to our work.
Abstract: (1990). More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 251-254.
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TL;DR: In this article, a more informed and comprehensive account of what a relational and Bourdieu-inspired agenda for organizational research might look like is presented, with the primary advantage of such an approach being the central place accorded therein to the social conditions under which inter- and intraorganizational power relations are produced, reproduced, and contested.
Abstract: Despite some promising steps in the right direction, organizational analysis has yet to exploit fully the theoretical and empirical possibilities inherent in the writings of Pierre Bourdieu. While certain concepts associated with his thought, such as field and capital, are already widely known in the organizational literature, the specific ways in which these terms are being used provide ample evidence that the full significance of his relational mode of thought has yet to be sufficiently apprehended. Moreover, the almost complete inattention to habitus, the third of Bourdieu’s major concepts, without which the concepts of field and capital (at least as he deployed them) make no sense, further attests to the misappropriation of his ideas and to the lack of appreciation of their potential usefulness. It is our aim in this paper, by contrast, to set forth a more informed and comprehensive account of what a relational – and, in particular, a Bourdieu-inspired – agenda for organizational research might look like. Accordingly, we examine the implications of his theoretical framework for interorganizational relations, as well as for organizations themselves analyzed as fields. The primary advantage of such an approach, we argue, is the central place accorded therein to the social conditions under which inter- and intraorganizational power relations are produced, reproduced, and contested.
663 citations
01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership as well as the comments of the SMS-Kauffman conference participants.
Abstract: The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership as well as the comments of the SMS-Kauffman conference participants. The constructive comments of the editors, especially Michael Hitt, have also improved this chapter significantly. We have received many helpful suggestions from seminar participants in Helsinki University of Technology, Jonkoping International Business School, and Norwegian School of Management. The chapter was written when the second author was affiliated with Syracuse University.
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