Tag: Bourdieu
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Bourdieu’s Structuration Theory
Bourdieu didn’t like the label ‘social theorist’ because he insisted that there was a fundamentally important relationship between empirical data, research methods and ‘theory’. He was not interested in making grand theoretical claims, but rather was engaged in examining particular substantive areas (fields) of social life that existed at particular times and places, such as…
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Structuration Theory – A Summary
From a structurationist perspective, a social theory must explain both social reproduction (social order being reproduced over time by people continuing to act in ways inherited from the past) and social transformation (how social order is changed by people, intentionally or unintentionally, through their interactions. Structuration theory seeks to overcome what it sees as the…
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The Hidden Privileges of Identity: On Being Middle Class
A summary of Steph Lawler’s ‘Sociological Perspectives on Identity’, chapter 7 During summer 2000 and in January 2001, there were two separate community-protests over the housing of child-offenders in the local community, one in a working-class area, by working-class people, another in a middle class area, by middle-class people. The first protest took place in…
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Cultural Capital and Educational Achievement
cultural capital is the skills, knowledge and values possessed by the middle class which give their children an advantage in education compared to the working classes.
