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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 explored the processes through which they negotiated gendered physicality within the context of physical education and found that the notion of regulated liberties rather than resistance captured girls' more subtle negotiations of gendered power relations as well as the ambiguities most girls experienced.
Abstract: This paper draws on data from a year‐long ethnographic study of a group of 12‐ to 13‐year‐old girls that explored the processes through which they negotiated gendered physicality within the context of physical education. Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and social fields and McNay’s extension of his work underpin a discussion of three contexts where girls experience and process understandings of gendered physicality: football and curriculum; home/school; and (hetero)sexuality. Girls’ identification of inequitable practices, modifications of behaviours with regard to perceived norms, and reflections on inconsistencies within and across social fields indicated the susceptibility of the gendered habitus to subversions. The notion of regulated liberties rather than resistance captures girls’ more subtle negotiations of gendered power relations as well as the ambiguities most girls experienced. Implications for teaching include creating space for critical inquiry, incorporating inclusive practices, recognizing g...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a unified presentation of the field of personality psychology, which employs four topics to organize the field: personality's identification (or definition), components, organization, and development.
Abstract: The framework for an academic field outlines the content of that field. The field's textbooks and reviews organize the field according to the framework's outline. Today, the field of personality psychology lacks a single, integrative framework. As a consequence, the field appears disorganized and weak. The systems framework developed in this article provides a unified presentation of the field. The framework employs 4 topics to organize the field: personality's (a) identification (or definition), (b) components, (c) organization, and (d) development. Each of the four topics is associated, in turn, with its own subsidiary framework that outlines its more specific coverage. The systems framework communicates personality psychology more effectively than previous presentations of the field. Its fieldwide overview provides a unified perspective for studying, explaining, and evaluating the personality system.
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TL;DR: In this article, data derived from three years of field work illuminate women's participation in a working class, community-based environmental protest organization, and show that initial recruitment occurs in the early stages of the movement.
Abstract: Data derived from three years of field work illuminate women's participation in a working class, community-based environmental protest organization. Findings show that (1) initial recruitment occur...
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20 Apr 2009
TL;DR: The idea of multi-site field research was first proposed by Masefield as discussed by the authors, who argued that the partial perspective afforded by a single research site was insufficient for understanding local phenomena such as trade and ethnic identity, because these things are part of systems that operate on a much larger scale.
Abstract: A group of Brahmins is engaged in quarrelsome dispute about the nature of reality. The Buddha tells them a story – the parable of the blind men and the elephant – as follows (Udana 6.4; see Masefield 1994, 128ff). A king orders all the men in his kingdom who have been blind from birth to be brought together and led before him, each having been partially introduced to an elephant, by each being given just one part of the elephant’s body to handle. The king then asks each of these people what kind of thing is an elephant. Those who had felt its head replied that an elephant is like a pot. Those who had held its ear said it resembled a winnowing basket. Those who had held only the trunk likened it to a plough, and so on. Then, just like the Brahmins, the blind men began to quarrel. The parable is used in the Buddhist text to warn against trying to reach conclusions about the nature of reality on the basis only of the partial view of the unenlightened. The original idea behind multi-sited research was that the partial perspective afforded by a single research site was insufficient for understanding local phenomena such as trade and ethnic identity, because these things are part of systems that operate on a much larger – specifically, on a global – scale. The contention was that a full understanding of those larger systems, and therefore of the conditions of possibility of any single local site, required one to combine the views gained from a sufficient number of different perspectives. This prescription rests on certain suppositions that are similar to those underpinning the parable of the elephant: that there is a hidden truth, available only to those who achieve a holistic, global view by transcending the particular; that this truth will explain and tie together all the partial perspectives of those who only know one point of view; and that what is seen from those different vantage points, though apparently diverse, is all really part of the same coherent, integrated phenomenon. In his influential 1995 paper, George Marcus listed a number of appropriate topics for multi-sited field research, including the media, science, and the global political economy. Religion was absent from his list, perhaps because whereas the fields that were listed were aspects of the supposedly novel situation of
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