Bourdieu's Field Theory and the Social Sciences

Book Overview

Introduction: On doing field analysis.- Drought and water policy in the western United States: Genesis and structure of a multi-level field.- Masculine learner identities in the field of student-directed musical learning.- Poetry and the conditions of practice: A field study.- Academic literacy support: Challenging the logic of practice.- Transformations of the Danish field of welfare work - shifting forms of dominated capital.- Breaking from the field: participant observation and Bourdieu's participant objectivation.- Framing a 'community of consumption': Field theory, multi-perspectival discourse analysis and the commercialisation of teaching.- Reshaping the field from the outside in: Aboriginal people and student journalists working together.- Cultural Innovation on the Fringe - The Fields of 'Limited' and 'Extensive' Production.- Bourdieusian reflexivity in insider research in higher education: Considering participants as a critical audience.- Positioning participation in the field of surfing: Sex, equity, and illusion.- Conceptualising strategies open to players within the field of Australian boys' education.- Field theory, space and time.- Governing cultural fields.- Thinking like Bourdieu: Completing the mental revolution with Legitimation Code Theory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811353832
• ISBN13: 9789811353833
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"