Showing papers on "Habitus published in 2021"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that access to elite universities can bring about a "habitus transformation" for working-class students, however, based on a three-year life history study, it is su...
Abstract: Some authors argue that access to elite universities can bring about a ‘habitus transformation’ for working-class students, however in this paper, based on a three-year life history study, it is su...
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TL;DR: In this article, a broad set of Bourdieu's concepts, comprising field, capital, doxa and habitus, was used to develop an understanding of accounting and accountability practices and perceptions in NGOs operating in Africa.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw upon Bourdieu's sociology to reformulate the political proces of the emergence and the dynamics of contentious mobilization in the context of political protest.
Abstract: How can we account for the emergence and the dynamics of contentious mobilization? In order to answer this question, this article draws upon Bourdieu’s sociology to reformulate the political proces...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the micro manifestations of stigmatization and their neglected longerterm affects for Roma in Czechia and Romania, and argue for more attention to the specificities and complexities of everyday relations and their affects.
Abstract: Roma discrimination and stigmatization in Europe are well- documented with urban scholars emphasizing pervasive prejudices and stereotypes alongside negative policy outcomes. However, the focus on Roma marginality has tended to centre on punitive state and urban governance to the neglect of everyday urban relations. This article focuses on the micro manifestations of stigmatization – racialized urban encounters – and their neglected longerterm affects for Roma in Czechia and Romania. Ethnographic research and in-depth qualitative interviews with Roma expose a complex, dynamic and multi-layered response to stigmatization that challenges the simplistic binary of resistance versus the internalization of stigma. The concept of fragmented habitus is deployed in capturing this dynamic process and nuancing the
urban inhabitation of a long-term stigmatized and racialized position, beyond generic “Otherness”. We argue for more attention to the specificities and complexities of everyday relations and their affects in capturing the interdependence between urban encounters, the longer-term construction of Roma inferiority, and the heterogeneous, dynamic and ambivalent ways in which Roma inhabit their racialized urban position.
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TL;DR: The authors examine how young people construct drinking and non-drinking as a choice by drawing on the concept of reflexive habitus, and examine how individuals in contemporary society habitually negotiate...
Abstract: This article examines how young people construct drinking and non-drinking as a choice by drawing on the concept of reflexive habitus – how individuals in contemporary society habitually negotiate ...
20 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the heterogeneity of resources that first-generation students bring with them to higher education and the factors that assist in these students' success are discussed, as well as the factors to assist in their success.
Abstract: In recent years, research has brought attention to the heterogeneity of resources that first-generation students bring with them to higher education and the factors that assist in these students’ s...
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TL;DR: In this paper, an approach that combines Shotter's (2006) phenomenology with post-hoc application of the Bourdieusian concepts of habitus, practices and social capital is proposed to offer an alternative to a priori theorising in research on firm level growth and environmental sustainability.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to offer an alternative to a priori theorising in research on firm-level growth and environmental sustainability. We outline an approach that combines Shotter’s (2006) phenomenology with post-hoc application of the Bourdieusian concepts of habitus, practices and social capital. This is illustrated empirically through a study conducted with a small group of Finnish entrepreneurs, which examines their lived experience of growth alongside its practical application in their ventures. The entrepreneurs’ responses reveal holistic perspectives on growth that extend beyond the economic to incorporate personal commitments to norms of collectivity and well-being for themselves and others. The paper offers an exploratory but empirically-grounded approach, arguing that a combination of insiders’ perspectives and attention to the social embedding of economic activity challenge the dichotomous distinctions between sustainable and conventional entrepreneurship and reveal a degree of commonality that would not be evident via conventional categorisations on the basis of features such as business model type.
19 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the notion of technological capital and its tree states is introduced, and a specific attention is given to its embodied state, which is related to the habitus of technology.
Abstract: This article builds on the hypothesis that theoretical approaches to philosophy of technology are currently stuck in a false alternative: either embrace the “empirical turn” or jump back into the determinism, pessimism, and general ignorance towards specific technologies that characterized the “humanities philosophy of technology.” A third path is however possible, which consists of articulating an empirical point of view with an interest in the symbolic dimension in which technologies and technological mediations are always already embedded. Bourdieu’s sociology of the symbolic forms represents an important and mostly unexplored resource in this respect. In this article, we introduce the notion of technological capital and its tree states—objectified, institutionalized, and embodied. In the first section, we briefly account of the empirical turn in philosophy of technology. Specific attention is then devoted to postphenomenology. We depict three perspectives in postphenomenology: (1) standard postphenomenology, in which one single human-technology-world relation at a time is considered; (2) the attempt of some technological mediation theorists to articulate postphenomenology and actor-network theory (ANT); (3) the original effort in Ihde, which is currently practiced by a minority of postphenomenologists, to combine an interest for the empirical dimension of technological mediations with an attention to the social and cultural conditions of possibility in which these mediations are embedded. In the second section, we consider some recent critiques of the limits of the empirical turn in philosophy of technology, especially related to postphenomenology. Furthermore, we argue that Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology may benefit the philosophy of technology. One might say that according to a Bourdieusian perspective, technologies are, in their invention, implementation, and use, embedded in symbolically organized interactions among social actors or groups. The notion of technological capital is introduced. A specific attention is given to its embodied state, which is related to the habitus. Such concept suggests that, to rephrase the famous sentence by Heidegger, “the essence of technology is not totally technological.” In the conclusion, we consider three risks related to a Bourdieusian approach to technology: (1) transparency, (2) determinism, and (3) absolutism.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the sociology of sustainable consumption has had a strong focus on practical understandings embedded in material entities and thereby also on the role of the material entities.
Abstract: In this article, we argue that the sociology of sustainable consumption has had a strong focus on practical understandings embedded in material entities and thereby also on the role of the material...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present new insights about the intersection of time, subjective and intersubjective experience, and mindfulness that are relevant to developing embodied wisdom in leaders, and establish a framework that leadership development programs in business schools can adopt for understanding habitus and mindfulness to enable embodied wisdom to develop in leaders.
Abstract: This article brings together mindfulness and habitus theory in relation to developing wise leaders. In particular, we present new insights about the intersection of time, subjective and intersubjective experience, and mindfulness that are relevant to developing embodied wisdom in leaders. We show that temporal competence is essential for shaping habitus and developing embodied wisdom. Further, and to extend theoretical understandings of mindfulness in leadership, we argue that temporal capabilities developed through mindfulness can foster embodied wisdom by creating a specific ‘wisdom habitus’ that includes values and ethics. The system of dispositions that comprise one’s habitus is, however, largely unconscious and implicit and we discuss how mindfulness renders habitus, including ethical conation accessible to development for the bodily ability to act wisely. This article then establishes a framework that leadership development programs in business schools can adopt for understanding habitus and mindfulness to enable embodied wisdom to develop in leaders. Finally, we show that a mindfulness perspective offers valuable contributions to research on leadership.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present reliability and validity evidence for a survey of factors that influence career aspirations in science, including science capital (science-related forms of social and cultural capital) and family habitus (dispositions for science).
Abstract: There is growing evidence that science capital (science-related forms of social and cultural capital) and family habitus (dispositions for science) influence STEM career decisions by youth. This study presents reliability and validity evidence for a survey of factors that influence career aspirations in science. Psychometric properties of the NextGen Scientist Survey were evaluated with 889 youth in grades 6–8. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) found four factors (Science Expectancy Value, Science Experiences, Future Science Task Value, and Family Science Achievement Values). Using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), four separate factor models were tested. The CFA affirmed that the four-factor solution extracted during the EFA was the best-fitting model. The analyses also found acceptable internal consistency for each of the four factors. The results validate the use of the NextGen Scientist Survey for measuring science capital for middle school youth.
TL;DR: Young people's practices in the social spaces of intoxication and exercise are patterned around the 'social health' and 'physical health' approaches and shaped by gendered binaries of masculine dominance, suggesting that intoxication may have lost its symbolic power among young people as a cool activity signalling autonomy, maturity, and transgression of norms.
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of existing research to explore experiences of administrative burden within the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was conducted, and it was found that the scheme is administratively cumbersome overall, and that burdens are exacerbated for particular social groups.
Abstract: Over the last 30 years, governments have sought to give citizens greater choice and control of the public services they utilise. As a result, we have seen the creation of various forms of public sector markets, including through contracting and tendering processes and, more recently, by utilising individualised or ‘personalised’ care budgets. Under the latter, individuals are given money to purchase services that meet their needs. There is growing evidence that personalisation schemes may actually be entrenching administrative burden, due to their unprecedented emphasis on individual skills and advocacy. Moreover, reviews internationally have found that such schemes tend to be administratively complex. This paper uses a systematic review of existing research to explore experiences of administrative burden within the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). We found that the scheme is administratively cumbersome overall, and that burdens are exacerbated for particular social groups. We apply concepts of habitus and capital from Bourdieu to theorise why burdens are experienced differently by different groups, and how to address this in practice. In doing so, we can see that addressing exclusion within the NDIS requires us to move away from problematising individuals to including those individuals in different stages of the design and implementation of administrative systems.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore approaches to research and action in language education that have the potential to transform subjectivities and practices in relation to linguistic diversity and seek ways within education and teacher education to overcome what Gogolin (1994) called the "mononlingual habitus", i.e., the deep-seated habit of assuming monolingualism as the norm for all individuals and thus for schooling.
Abstract: The articles in this special issue explore approaches to research and action in language education that have the potential to transform subjectivities and practices in relation to linguistic diversity. They seek ways within education and teacher education to overcome what Gogolin ([1994]. Der monolinguale ‘habitus’ der multilingualen Schule. Waxmann Verlag) called the ‘mononlingual habitus’, i.e. the deep-seated habit of assuming monolingualism as the norm for all individuals and thus for schooling. In doing so, the contributors aim to (re)inscribe multi/plurilingual education in Europe as a socially engaged pedagogical approach and field of research grounded in ideals of social justice. In this introduction, we provide a brief overview of multi/plurilingual education in Europe, linking to current critical work on neoliberalism, language, education and social justice. We then introduce and discuss some of the key theoretical concepts used by the different authors for studying subjectivities (e.g. attitudes, beliefs, ideologies, mind-sets) as well as the methodological approaches employed in the articles. We close with an overview of the different articles that make up the special issue and by highlighting some of the enduring issues in the field of multi/plurilingual education.
TL;DR: A fleshed-out definition of disaster social capital is offered to distinguish it from regular social capital and the barriers to, and enablers of, its formation are discussed.
Abstract: Social capital discourse occupies an important place in disaster studies. Scholars have adopted various inflections of social capital to explain how those with greater social capital are generally more resilient to disasters and experience speedier recoveries. Disaster scholars have also discovered that people typically display altruistic tendencies in the wake of disasters and develop novel networks of mutual support - known as "communitas" which is also seen to built resilience and boost recovery. In this article, we use the work of Pierre Bourdieu to synthesize these literatures, conceptualizing communitas as "disaster social capital". We offer a fleshed-out definition of disaster social capital to distinguish it from regular social capital and discuss the barriers to, and enablers of, its formation. While primarily a conceptual discussion, we hope that it has practical and policy implications for disaster scholars and practitioners interested in inclusive disaster risk reduction as well as full and just recoveries. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how ableism operates as a form of symbolic violence, constraining the career opportunities of disabled employees in a financial services company, and analyze how the "rules of the game" structuring the organizational field and the habitus of disabled individuals jointly shape those individuals' ability to accrue economic, social, cultural as well as symbolic capital.
Abstract: Responding to recent calls to extend our understanding of ableism as a powerful organizing principle of the workplace, this study examines how ableism operates as a form of symbolic violence, constraining the career opportunities of disabled employees in a financial services company. Drawing on Bourdieuan theory, we analyze how the ‘rules of the game’ structuring the organizational field and the habitus of disabled individuals jointly shape those individuals’ ability to accrue economic, social, cultural as well as symbolic capital, as well as up different positions in a particular social space. A Bourdieuan approach centered on social practice allows us to develop a fuller understanding of the mechanisms through which valued forms of capital are unequally distributed within an arbitrary social order that privileges certain competences favoring able-bodied over disabled workers, and of disabled workers’ own role within such mechanisms.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore peoples' dispositions and practices with regard to social-ecological transformations based on a sustainable welfare policy strategy in Sweden and find seven habitus types and describe their social characteristics, political preferences, and practices.
Abstract: We explore peoples' dispositions and practices with regard to social-ecological transformations based on a sustainable welfare policy strategy in Sweden. We draw on Bourdieu's concept of habitus to highlight the relations between social positions, dispositions, and position-takings. Using data from an own survey, we identify habitus types and place these in the space of social positions. We apply principal component analysis to a large set of questions about social, ecological, and climate change related topics and identify eight underlying eco-social dispositions. These are used for cluster analyses that find typical constellations of eco-social dispositions within the Swedish population: variants of eco-social habitus. We find seven habitus types and describe their social characteristics, political preferences, and practices. Finally, the seven habitus are plotted onto the map of social positions, the Bourdieusian social space, highlighting their relations-proximities, tensions, and contestations-to each other. We find evidence that political struggles around social-ecological transformations reproduce existing social structures but are also connected to new "eco-social" divisions that appear between groups in similar positions. In the conclusion we discuss the implications for social-ecological transformations based on sustainable welfare.
TL;DR: In the video game industry, a period of unpaid overtime meant to speed up lagging projects is a common labor practice in the video games industry and persists despite many costs to developers.
Abstract: ‘Crunch’ – a period of unpaid overtime meant to speed up lagging projects – is a common labor practice in the video game industry and persists despite many costs to developers. To understand why, w...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how migrants in Germany use cultural, economic and moral boundaries to position themselves socially in transnational social spaces, focusing on how people from different origins and classes use different sets of symbolic boundaries to give meaning to their social mobility trajectories.
Abstract: This article examines the nexus of spatial and social mobility by focusing on how migrants in Germany use cultural, economic and moral boundaries to position themselves socially in transnational social spaces. It is based on a mixed-methods approach, drawing on qualitative interviews and panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey. By focusing on how people from different origins and classes use different sets of symbolic boundaries to give meaning to their social mobility trajectories, we link subjective positioning strategies with structural features of people’s mobility experience. We find that people use a class-specific boundary pattern, which has strong transnational features, because migrants tend to mix symbolic and material markers of status hierarchies relevant to both their origin and destination countries. We identify three different types of boundary patterns, which exemplify different ways in which objective structure and subjectively experienced inequalities influence migrants’ social positioning strategies in transnational spaces. These different types also exemplify how migrants’ habitus influences their social positioning strategies, depending on their mobility and social trajectory in transnational spaces.
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that VET students are stereotyped as "stupid" and "stubborn" in China, and VET colleges in China are positioned at the bottom of the educational hierarchy, absorbing the left-over students with less desirable academic records.
Abstract: VET colleges in China are positioned at the bottom of the educational hierarchy, absorbing the ‘left-over’ students with ‘less desirable’ academic records. VET students are stereotyped as ‘stupid a...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on Elias's sociology of knowledge to delineate the social processes that have culminated in the development of the post-truth phenomenon, arguing that technological and social...
Abstract: This article draws on Elias’s sociology of knowledge to delineate the social processes that have culminated in the development of the post-truth phenomenon. It argues that technological and social ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the Cypriot National Guard performs a Greek identity in three key configurations: 1) the operational link between the Greek Army and the CNG; 2) the explicit connection to both ancient and modern Greece through various CNG insignia and practices, including parades and marching songs; and 3) the entrenchment of the Greek Orthodox Church within its practices.
Abstract: Students of International Relations are taught that the modern nation-state has a monopoly on the (legitimate) use of violence. However, in the case of the Republic of Cyprus this does not seem to be the case, since its armed forces, the Cypriot National Guard (CNG), are intimately embedded within Greece’s military structure, and half the island remains under Turkish occupation. The colonization of Cyprus (1571–1960) and subsequent decolonization has led to the gradual construction of two rigid identities, Greek and Turkish, that have been institutionalized legally and imposed constitutionally. This paper seeks to answer two questions. First, how does the CNG perform and therefore constitute a ‘Greek identity’? Second, is this performance epistemically violent, hindering the formation of hybrid identities? We use autoethnography, interviews, and insights from Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the habitus and Judith Butler’s performativity theory to explore these two questions. We argue that the CNG performs a Greek identity in three key configurations: 1) the operational link between the Greek Army and the CNG; 2) the explicit connection to both ancient and modern Greece through various CNG insignia and practices, including parades and marching songs; and 3) the entrenchment of the Greek Orthodox Church within its practices.
TL;DR: The men-dominated work culture in engineering is regarded as one of the reasons for this as discussed by the authors, and women engineers in Germany rarely reach the higher management levels of companies, and this is attributed to the lack of female engineers in the field.
Abstract: Women engineers in Germany rarely reach the higher management levels of companies. The men-dominated work culture in engineering is regarded as one of the reasons for this. In particular, because t...
TL;DR: In this paper, a transnationalization process has deeply affected contemporary societies and one important aspect of this transformation is that people's skills and dispositions change, thus the ways they t...
Abstract: Ongoing transnationalization processes have deeply affected contemporary societies. One important aspect of this transformation is that people’s skills and dispositions change, thus the ways they t...
TL;DR: In this article, the notions of citizenship as status, habitus and acts as a framework through which to capture how sovereign power, disciplinary power and biopower intersect in the context of...
Abstract: This article employs the notions of citizenship as status, habitus and acts as a framework through which to capture how sovereign power, disciplinary power and biopower intersect in the context of ...
TL;DR: The authors studied the preferences of middle-class residents for old or new neighborhoods in two Israeli cities, and described the ways local social space mediates the translation of the habitus into new or old neighborhoods.
Abstract: This article studies the preferences of middle-class residents for old or new neighborhoods in two Israeli cities, and describes the ways local social space mediates the translation of the habitus ...
TL;DR: The interest in educational and professional aspirations of students transiting to post-secondary education has gained prominence in academic debates and policy agendas internationally as discussed by the authors, and the importance of post-graduate education has attracted international attention.
Abstract: The interest in educational and professional aspirations of students transiting to post-secondary education has gained prominence in academic debates and policy agendas internationally. Political i...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the process of neoliberalization of social housing in England was instigated by the state's intervention to change the structure of the field in terms of norms, power relations and positions of players on the field.
TL;DR: In this article, the spaces of professional autonomy are defined and formed in Swedish higher education institutions (HEIs), and the Swedish HEIs have become increasingly characterised by rivalling pr...
Abstract: This article concerns how spaces of professional autonomy are defined and formed in Swedish higher education institutions (HEIs). Swedish HEIs have become increasingly characterised by rivalling pr...
22 Apr 2021
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the affective textures of everyday life in an attempt to redirect the temptation to representational thinking to a slowed ethnographic practice and find that emotional habitus conditions the possibilities of personal and political action and inaction in response to critique.
Abstract: Techlash encapsulates a breaking point reached with the critique of technology companies. To investigate how this whirlwind of rage, inquiry, and accountability affects the lives of tech workers, we conducted interviews with 19 tech workers. Our methodological approach and contribution adopts a style of writing and analysis associated with anthropologist Kathleen Stewart, where we focus on the affective textures of everyday life in an attempt to redirect the temptation to representational thinking to a slowed ethnographic practice. This paper dwells on the affects of tech workers facing critique and scrutiny. Through this approach, we find that emotional habitus conditions the possibilities of personal and political action and inaction in response to critique. By emotional habitus, we refer to the emotional dispositions honed among tech workers by tech culture's rationality and optimism. This habitus must shift if people are to access new ways of relating and acting. We argue for more fruitful attitudes and practices in relation to critique.