Habitus-analysis: identities and strategies, fields and social space according to Pierre Bourdieu : models for research on religion and culture

The book consists of an outline of combined qualitative and quantitative methods, designed on the basis of Bourdieu's general social theory. The methods are focused on individual and collective actors such as social and religious movements. Habitus-analysis enables to qualitatively reconstruct identities and strategies of actors as cognitive networks of their practical logic (cognitive 'maps'); thus it fills the gap in Bourdieuian theory of a qualitative approach to identities and strategies of individual and collective actors. A scaled model of fields allows for constructing and empirically studying power relations and opportunities in specific fields of praxis such as the religious field. A simplified model of a social space of cultural (and religious) styles facilitates international comparison as well as an application of the space model totransnational relations. The book thus draws on the theory and methods of Bourdieu, developing them further beyond Bourdieu for practical empirical research. The book launches the program of religious studies at the University of Bielefeld as a kind of 'toolbox' onto a broader scientific discussion. INDICE: Introduction - Habitus: The Praxeological Square and Network of Practical Operators - Fields: Two Dimensions and Scalable Power Relations - Social Space: Different Forms of Capital, Positions and Styles - Final Considerations

• ISBN: 978-3-531-17511-9
• Editorial: Springer VS
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 230
• Fecha Publicación: 30/06/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés