Bourdieu: The Next Generation - The Development of Bourdieu's Intellectual Heritage in Contemporary UK Sociology (Hardcover)

This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues. It will provide a discussion of the working mechanisms of thinking through and/or with Bourdieu when analysing data. In each chapter, individual authors discuss and reflect upon their own research and the ways in which they put Bourdieu to work. The aim of this book is not to just to provide examples of the development of Bourdieusian research, but for each author to reflect on the ways in which they came across Bourdieu's work, why it speaks to them (including a reflexive consideration of their own background), and the way in which it is thus useful in their thinking. Many of the authors were introduced to Bourdieu's works after his death. The research problems which the individual authors tackle are contextualised in a different time and space to the one Bourdieu occupied when he was developing his conceptual framework. This book will demonstrate how his concepts can be applied as "thinking tools" to understand contemporary social reality. Throughout Bourdieu's career, he argued that sociologists need to create an epistemological break, to abandon our common sense - or as much as we can - and to formulate findings from our results. In essence, we are putting Bourdieu to work to provide a structural constructivist approach to social reality anchored through empirical reflexivity.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Sociological Futures
Release date:	December 2015
First published:	2016
Editors:	Jenny Thatcher • Nicola Ingram • Ciaran Burke • Jessie Abrahams
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-91046-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Promotions
LSN:	1-138-91046-5
Barcode:	9781138910461

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