Overview
- Provides applications of Bourdieu’s methodology of social space and social fields
- Includes applications of Geometric Data Analysis, especially correspondence analysis
- Presents an overview of the status quo on empirical research working with Bourdieu’s methodological and theoretical framework
- Comprises empirical research using the social space approach in various areas of the social sciences
Part of the book series: Methodos Series (METH, volume 15)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Construction of the Social Space
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Modeling Social Fields
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Keywords
About this book
• the theory and methodology for the construction of “social spaces”,
• the relation between various “fields” and “the field of power”,
• formal construction and empirical observation of habitus,
• the formation, accumulation, differentiation of and conversion between different forms of capital,
• relations in geometric data analysis.
The book also includes contributions regarding particular applications of Bourdieu’s methodology to traditional andnew areas of research, such as the analysis of institutional, international and transnational fields. It further provides a systematic introduction into the empirical construction of the social space.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Brigitte Le Roux is Maître de Conférences at the Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées (MAP5), CRNS (the French National Center for Scientific Research) Université Paris Descartes and associate researcher at the political research center of SciencesPo Paris (CEVIPOF/CNRS). She serves on the editorial board of the journal Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales. She completed her doctoral dissertation with Jean-Paul Benzécri in 1970 at the Faculté des Sciences de Paris. She has contributed to numerous theoretical research works and full-scale empirical studies involving geometric data analysis.
Frederic Lebaron is professor at the chair of sociology at the Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and professor at the Sciences Po-Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He was Director of the Centre Universitaire de Recherches Administratives et Politiques de Picardie (CURAPP) from 2005-2013., and president of the Association Française de Sociologie between 2015 and 2017. His main research areas are political sociology, economic sociology, and quantitative methods of social sciences.He is currently working on the social determinants and the consequences of economic policies, like monetary, fiscal, and structural policies, especially within the context of the crisis in the Eurozone.
Andreas Schmitz is a post-doc researcher at the University of Bonn. His research focuses on the elaboration of generalized field theory, principles of relational methodology and methods, and geometric data analysis. He is currently working on the theoretical conceptualization and empirical construction of the global field of power/meta field and on a political sociology of fear.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Empirical Investigations of Social Space
Editors: Jörg Blasius, Frédéric Lebaron, Brigitte Le Roux, Andreas Schmitz
Series Title: Methodos Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15387-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15386-1Published: 08 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15389-2Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15387-8Published: 07 January 2020
Series ISSN: 1572-7750
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9892
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 440
Number of Illustrations: 98 b/w illustrations
Topics: Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Methodology of the Social Sciences