Bringing Bourdieus Theory Of Fields To Critical Policy Analysis

Author : Vincent Dubois
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803924004
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Bringing Bourdieu's Theory of Fields to Critical Policy Analysis written by Vincent Dubois and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laying down the foundations of a critical sociological approach to the interdisciplinary domain of public policy, this insightful book presents the first systematic reflection on the use of Bourdieu’s theory of social fields to analyse policy processes. Engaging with theoretical dimensions, it provides innovative methodological tools, both quantitative and qualitative in nature. Bringing together an array of eminent contributors and case studies from across the globe, it presents theoretical and methodological insights, as well as empirical information on national cases and policy sectors.

Author : Mathieu Hilgers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317678591
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Bourdieu's Theory of Social Fields written by Mathieu Hilgers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bourdieu’s theory of social fields is one of his key contributions to social sciences and humanities. However, it has never been subjected to genuine critical examination. This book fills that gap and offers a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the theory. It includes a critical discussion of its methodology and relevance in different subject areas in the social sciences and humanities. Part I "theoretical investigations" offers a theoretical account of the theory, while also identifying some of its limitations and discussing several strategies to overcome them. Part II "Education, culture and organization" presents the theory at work and highlights its advantages and disadvantages. The focus in Part III devoted to "The State" is on the formation and evolution of the State and public policy in different contexts. The chapters show the usefulness of field theory in describing, explaining and understanding the functioning of the State at different stages in its historical trajectory including its recent redefinition with the advent of the neoliberal age. A last chapter outlines a postcolonial use of the theory of fields.

Author : Jean-Louis Fabiani
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004442618
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Pierre Bourdieu: A Heroic Structuralism written by Jean-Louis Fabiani and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one speak dispassionately about Pierre Bourdieu? Jean-Louis Fabiani’s book is an attempt to apply Bourdieu’s analytical tools to his own work. Testing their limitations and their potential ambiguity allows the author to shed new light on the social genesis of his main concepts and on the complex relationship between science and politics.

Author : Jeremy F. Lane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134228449
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Bourdieu's Politics written by Jeremy F. Lane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political interventions, defending the cause of striking students and workers, speaking out in the name of illegal immigrants, the homeless and the unemployed, challenging the incursion of the market into the field of artistic and intellectual production. The first sustained analysis of Bourdieu's politics, this study seeks to assess the validity of his claims as to the distinctiveness and superiority of his own field theory as a tool of political analysis.

Author : Nicolina Montesano Montessori
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788974964
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Critical Policy Discourse Analysis written by Nicolina Montesano Montessori and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a series of contemporary and international policy case studies analysed through discursive methodological approaches in the traditions of critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and discourse theory. This is the first volume that connects this discursive methodology systematically to the field of critical policy analysis and will therefore be an essential book for researchers who wish to include a discursive analysis in their critical policy research.

Author : Jacek Tittenbrun
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622732073
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Neither Capital, Nor Class written by Jacek Tittenbrun and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth examination of Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework. The book is not just a collection of more or less critical remarks but constitutes a coherent whole, underpinned by an original analytical framework. This conceptual apparatus makes it possible to present some alternative solutions to the theoretical problems under consideration. The book goes largely against the grain of views that are dominant in the literature on Bourdieu. Therefore, its conclusions may be surprising to many a reader. The book demonstrates that Bourdieu's well-known theory of 'capital' forms is untenable, resembling more an illegitimate metaphor rather than a scientific concept. In a similar vein, the Bourdesian class theory should be largely regarded as a variant of social stratification rather than class. There are many theoretical and empirical problems with Bourdieu's theory of social and cultural reproduction as well. There is more to the above criticisms than meets the eye. The point is that many weaknesses of Bourdieu's style of theorising seem to stem from his intellectual dependence upon structuralism, especially in Claude Lévi-Strauss' version. It is this affinity that accounts for such features of Bourdieu's approach as its essentialism, formalism and epistemic idealism. The book will be of interest primarily to students of Bourdieu's many and varied contributions to social theory. In view of Bourdieu's immense influence, it will also hold interest to critical scholars in political science, economic sociology and political philosophy.

Author : Neil Fligstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190241454
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Theory of Fields written by Neil Fligstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action. In a work of remarkable synthesis, imagination, and analysis, Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam propose that social change and social order can be understood through what they call strategic action fields. They posit that these fields are the general building blocks of political and economic life, civil society, and the state, and the fundamental form of order in our world today. Similar to Russian dolls, they are nested and connected in a broader environment of almost countless proximate and overlapping fields. Fields are mutually dependent; change in one often triggers change in another. At the core of the theory is an account of how social actors fashion and maintain order in a given field. This sociological theory of action, what they call "social skill," helps explain what individuals do in strategic action fields to gain cooperation or engage in competition. To demonstrate the breadth of the theory, Fligstein and McAdam make its abstract principles concrete through extended case studies of the Civil Rights Movement and the rise and fall of the market for mortgages in the U.S. since the 1960s. The book also provides a "how-to" guide to help others implement the approach and discusses methodological issues. With a bold new approach, A Theory of Fields offers both a rigorous and practically applicable way of thinking through and making sense of social order and change-and how one emerges from the other-in modern, complex societies.

Author : John R. W. Speller
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924422
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Bourdieu and Literature written by John R. W. Speller and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works. One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard point of reference in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, art history, cultural studies, politics, and sociology, but his longstanding interest in literature has often been overlooked. This study explores the impact of literature on Bourdieu's intellectual itinerary, and how his literary understanding intersected with his sociological theory and thinking about cultural policy. This is the first full-length study of Bourdieu's work on literature in English, and it provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars of literary studies, cultural theory and sociology.

Author : Neil Fligstein
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199859949
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Theory of Fields written by Neil Fligstein and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action.

Author : Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000040674
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Charting Transnational Fields written by Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization. Drawing on seminal work by Pierre Bourdieu, we apply concepts of practice, habitus, and field to phenomena such as cross-national social trajectories, international procedures of evaluation, standardization, and certification, or supranational political structures. These transnational phenomena form part of general political struggles that legitimate social relationships in and beyond the nation-state. Part 1 on methodological foundations discusses the consequences of Bourdieu’s epistemology and methodology for theorizing and investigating transnational phenomena. The contributions show the importance of field-theoretical concepts for post-national insights. Part 2 on investigating political fields presents exemplary case studies in diverse research areas such as colonial imperialism, international academic rankings, European policy fields, and local school policy. While focusing on their research objects, the contributions also give an insight into the mechanisms involved in processes of transnationalization. The volume is an invitation for sociologists, political scientists, and scholars in adjacent research areas to engage with reflexive and relational research practice and to further develop field-theoretical thought.