Bourdieu's Concept Research Articles

Capital sharing and socialization in an interprofessional student-led clinic: a Bourdieuan analysis.

Interprofessional student-led clinics offer authentic clinical experiences of collaborative patient care. However, theoretical research on the sustainability of these clinics, considering forms of capital beyond the economic, remains limited. This study addresses this gap by employing Bourdieu's theoretical framework to explore how alternative conceptions of capital; both social and cultural might sustain conditions for interprofessional working in a student-led clinic serving patients living with a chronic neurological impairment. The teaching and learning focussed clinic was established in 2018 to mirror a clinical service. Semi-structured focus groups with participants involving 20 students from 5 professions and 11 patients gathered in-depth insights into their experiences within the clinic. A thematic analysis was guided by Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus, and capital. In the complex landscape of the student-led clinic, at the intersection of a patient support group, a hospital-based aged care facility, and university-based healthcare professions, three pivotal mechanisms emerged underpinning its sustainability: Fostering students' disposition to interprofessional care, Capitalizing on collaboration and patient empowerment, and a Culture of mutual exchange of capital. These themes illustrate how students and patients specific dispositions towards interprofessional healthcare enriched their habitus by focusing on shared patient well-being goals. Diverse forms of capital exchanged by students and patients fostered trust, respect, and mutual empowerment, enhancing the clinic experience. This study bridges an important gap in theoretically informed explorations of the conditions for sustaining student-led clinics, drawing on Bourdieu's theory. It accentuates the significance of investment of diverse forms of capital in such clinics beyond the economic, whilst emphasizing a primary commitment to advancing interprofessional healthcare expertise. Recognizing patients as equal partners shapes clinic dynamics. In order for student clinics to thrive in a sustainable fashion, educators must shift their focus beyond solely maximizing financial resources. Instead, they should champion investments in a wider range of capital forms. This requires active participation from all stakeholders; faculties, patient partners, service providers, and students. These findings underscore the importance of investing in interprofessional learning by optimizing various forms of capital, and embracing patients as dynamic contributors to the clinic's sustainability.

The price women attorneys pay for being mothers in South African law firms

AbstractThis paper presents the findings of a study undertaken amongst women attorneys in South Africa, to determine the impact motherhood has on their legal career. The argument is that motherhood is incompatible with the hyper‐competitive male dominant professional culture of the legal profession. The paper employs Edgar Schein's concept of organisational culture and Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus and culture to understand how women continue to experience unequal outcome in their careers, despite the removal of formal barriers and the enactment of laws and policies. The concepts further illuminate how and why the male dominant culture of the profession embeds itself and remains one of the hardest elements to change. The study was furthermore underpinned by a feminist standpoint epistemology, interviewing 27 attorneys across three corporate law firms in South Africa. The key findings show that when becoming a mother, many women attorneys experience a disjuncture between their mothering and professional role, which is attributed to the hyper‐competitive culture of the profession. This leads to many women having less successful legal careers which is manifested in different ways. These findings demonstrate how women are perpetually marginalized in the profession and why we continue to see the lack of women in the senior ranks of the profession despite a robust legal and policy framework promoting equality.

Türkiye’de Farklı Lise Türlerindeki Öğrencilerin Eğitim Yörüngelerinin Kesişimselliği Üzerine Fenomenolojik Bir Araştırma

In this research, we examined the student practices of high school students in different types of high schools in Turkey in the light of Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and cultural capital. While tracing the essences of student practices with a phenomenological approach, we tried to make explicit what lies at the intersections of different types of high schools in terms of these practices and how the educational trajectories of students in these high schools are shaped and reshaped. We conducted the research in six different types of high schools in Ankara. Through a phenomenological analysis of in-depth interviews with 96 high school students and a total of seven mothers, we explored student practices and the interrelationships between habitus and cultural capital in the home and school environments. As a result of this analysis, we interpreted the essences that cut across the educational trajectories of students positioned in different types of high schools as living with the illusion of school choice, declaring the position with a sense of entitlement, engagement with cultural fields through cultural consumption habits, and utilizing sports for the presentation of self. The main result of the research shows that although students are positioned in different trajectories, the essence of their student practices does not change. We believe that this result should be explained from the perspective that the existence of different types of schools or different routes for students cannot guarantee the social mobility of individuals, but continues to serve the reproduction of all the historical and social contingencies that create these students' positionality.

"Sense for Gambling" Among Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Men With Gambling Disorder.

Making sense of the social world is an intricate process heavily influenced by cultural elements. Gambling is a prevalent leisure-time activity characterized by risk-taking conduct. While some individuals who engage in it do so without experiencing any harm, others will develop gambling problems. Judaism tends to perceive gambling negatively since it contradicts fundamental Jewish principles. The current study focuses on the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox community in Israel which is characterized as a cultural enclave with minimal interaction with the secular world. Hence, it provides a unique and novel socio-cultural context to inquire how individuals with gambling disorder (GD) from this community make sense of gambling. Following constructivist grounded theory guidelines, 22 Ultra-Orthodox men with GD were interviewed using a purposeful sampling design. Sixteen Rabbis were also interviewed, illuminating the socio-cultural context of Halachic regulations and norms regarding gambling in this community. An abductive analysis of the data, interwoven with Bourdieu's concept of habitus, yielded an overarching theme that we dub as "sense for gambling," encompassing matrices of Ultra-Orthodox external (e.g., a conservative cultural structure with numerous prohibitions and life marked by poverty) and internal (e.g., feelings of loneliness, dissatisfaction, and deviance) dispositions imprinted onto the body, creating diverse embodied reactions (emotional and sensory) to gambling, and leading to developing GD. We recommend placing the body, as the locus of internalized dispositions, at the core of examination when researching pathways to GD. We propose that this intricate interplay between external and internal dispositions shapes the decision-making regarding gambling, thus mitigating individual responsibility for GD.

Does inequality migrate? The development of income inequality across German states

AbstractThis study analyzes the evolution of educational and occupational patterns among migrants and natives, as well as income inequality in Germany from 1985 to 2015. We show that despite migrants catching up in education, employment, and income with their native counterparts, unfavorable societal attitudes toward them have remained virtually unchanged, which can be attributed to Bourdieu's conceptualization of cultural inheritance. We find that while income inequality has increased significantly over the 30‐year period, this trend varied considerably by the federal state and that migration did nothing to add to inequality. Since both the German economy and society rely on migrants, there is a strong need for the narratives toward migrants to be based on empirical evidence. The findings of this study hold migrant‐related policy implications not only for Germany but also for other developed nations that rely on migrants as a labor force.

Chinese migrant communities’ relationships to coastal spaces in the ‘City of Sails’, Aotearoa New Zealand

ABSTRACT New Zealanders have long-standing and multifaceted relationships with coasts, including recreation activities in, on and by the water. Leisure scholarship to date has paid little attention to outdoor recreation in New Zealand's fast-growing Asian migrant communities, whose involvement in coastal recreation is relatively low. This study explores Auckland's Chinese communities’ relationship with coastal blue spaces (i.e. the ocean/sea, beach and harbour) through their recreation activities, and the potential impacts on their experiences of cultural identity, belonging and wellbeing. Interviews were conducted with Chinese immigrants and community sport organisations’ representatives to understand the factors that enable and constrain Chinese immigrants’ outdoor blue space recreation practices. Applying Bourdieu's concepts, we identified that Chinese communities’ relationships to coastal blue spaces are impacted by their ‘blue space’ related habitus and cultural capital. Findings also suggest that when facing habitus-field mismatch, participants reject norms and expectations in the field, actively disrupting and challenging them.

Family assistants in the meetings space of social workers. A few reflections on the margin of Pierre Bourdieu's field concept

Of all the representatives of social services, social workers are the people with whom family assistants most often come into contact and cooperate. It is between them that the greatest number of interactions takes place. The Act on Family Support and the Foster Care System of 9 June 2011 does not clearly define the areas of cooperation between assistants and social workers. To date, no standards have been developed that would make it possible to define unambiguously the place of family assistance in the social welfare system. Already at the draft stage of the aforementioned law, the lack of clearly defined areas of activity of family assistants was pointed out as a weakness, which was associated with the overlapping of duties of family assistants and social workers. Phenomenographic research I conducted among family assistants shows that they experience difficulties in their relationships with social workers. The results of the analyzes inspired me to rethink the ways of experiencing being a family assistant in a relationship with a social worker. This article takes the form of a re-visit, allowing to reconstruct the thinking and experiences of the family assistants in the new register – this time in the light of Pierre Bourdieu’s field concept.

Bourdieu’nün “Habitus” Kavramıyla Twitter’daki Eğilimleri Pekiştirme Olgusunun Aşı Tartışmaları Üzerinden İncelenmesi

Pierre Bourdieu, toplumsal yaşamdaki olguları açıklamak için habitus, alan, sermaye gibi bazı kavramlara değinmektedir. Bu çalışmada, Bourdieu’nün toplumsal yaşam için kullandığı kavramların sosyal medya üzerindeki iz düşümleri, bireysel ve toplumsal kanaatlerin biçimlenmesinde belirleyici bir platform olduğu düşünülen Twitter özelinde incelenmiştir. Twitter’ın algoritmalar yardımıyla bireylerin eğilimlerini yönlendirme ve pekiştirme konusundaki yansıması, aşı tartışmaları üzerinden irdelenmiştir. Bu noktada başta, Bourdieu’nün kullandığı habitus kavramıyla, Twitter’daki algoritmalar ve filtre baloncuklarının insanlar üzerinde benzer tesirlere sebep olduğu çıkarımından faydalanılmıştır. Böylece olumlamacı perspektiften yapılan yorumlarda çok sesli olarak addedilen sosyal medyanın, bilfiil yaşamdaki fikirlerin şekillenme sürecindeki rolü sorgulanmıştır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Twitter'ın iddia edildiği gibi çok sesliliği sağlayıp sağlamadığı veya algoritmaların ve doğrulama yanlılığının etkisiyle farklı görüşlerin duyulmasını engelleyip engellemediğini anlamaya çalışmaktır. Araştırmada, Twitter kullanıcılarının deneyimlerini ölçümlemek ve bireysel kanaatlerin oluşumundaki sosyo-kültürel durumu yakından analiz etmek için yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme tekniğinden faydalanılarak; betimsel bir analiz yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Sosyal medya platformlarının algoritmalar, filtre baloncuklarından oluşan doğası gereği, kullanıcıları çok seslilikten ziyade, kendi çevreleriyle kısıtlamaya sürüklediği ve bunun da bireylerin hâlihazırdaki fikirlerinin daha da pekişmesine ve çevrelerinin tekdüze kanaatlerle kuşatılmasına sebep olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır.

Helicopter mobility: Changing habitus without challenging structural inequalities, experiences of an international elite education programme

AbstractThis original study followed up ten beneficiaries of a UK charity‐led programme that supported disadvantaged students in applying to elite US universities. First interviewed in 2015 during their early university days in the United States, in our 2019 follow‐up all participants had graduated. Six remained in the United States and four had returned to the United Kingdom, with only one returning to their pre‐university community. They reported benefitting immensely from their international opportunities and were nearly all in high‐paying graduate jobs or high‐profile graduate programmes. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of the ‘cleft habitus’, which can result from rapid and substantial shifts in field, we found that this was rare. Rather, the majority had undergone a ‘wholesale escape’, replacing their originary habitus with one that was consistent with their new field. The significance of the study is that the findings allow us to propose the concept of ‘helicopter mobility’ to describe individualised approaches to social mobility, whereby those considered to have merit are removed from their communities without questioning or affecting wider structural inequalities.

COGNITIVE COMMUNICATION AND RESOURCE APPROACH TO SOCIAL WORK PRACTICES

Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Recent research and publications are analyzed by integrating the potential of Socratic dialogue, the tradition of dialogical philosophy by M. Buber, J. Habermas's theory of communicative action, discourse ethics by J. Habermas and K.-O. Apel, the phenome-nological investigations into the topology of the Other by B. Waldenfels, trust research by O. Kozhemiakina, historical explorations of “distant closeness” by V. Yermolenko, and other detailed studies that specifically elaborate on cognitive (linguistic) communication as the linguistic-communicative competence of the social worker. The research objective. The research objective is to define the theoretical and practical significance of cognitive (linguistic) communication and volunteerism as a resource in social work. The statement of basic materials. In the paradigm of the communicative turn from subjectivity to intersubjectivity, this study suggests employing the concept of cognitive communication, defining its content and form based on social work theories. It covers psychologically oriented, humanistic-personalistic, role theory and stigma, and the Strength-Based Perspective theories. To describe volunteerism as a resource in social work practices, Pierre Bourdieu's concept of social capital is utilized.

Visualization of Krebet Wood Mask in Visual Arts Learning For PGSD Students: A Study of Creativity Habitus

This article is research results about making Krebet “batik” masks in groups carried out by PGSD students. Research’s aims to describe the application of Pierre Bourdieu's concept of habitus and Wallas' creative process. Research methodology is qualitative and case study approach. Data collection techniques are observation and document review. Data analysis techniques are data collection, data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusions and verification. The subjects researched were PGSD FKIP UAD students, while the objects were Krebet wooden batik masks. Results show that: (1) students applying habitus concept in the practice of making “batik” wooden masks (knowledge, understanding, perceptions, values, and actions) that are internalized as part of society in Yogyakarta; (2) students were integrated habitus concept in the stages of the creative process: (a) the preparation stage which is carried out by forming groups and discussing the theme of “batik” motifs; (b) incubation stage, search for inspiration forms explored of motifs following “batik” objects; (c) illumination stage on the surface of the mask with "canthing" and liquid wax according to the design; d) verification stage by testing new visualization ideas in making designs on paper and transferring them to the wood directly based on the basic elements of fine art.

Support for eco-social policy from a class perspective: Responsibilities, redistribution, regulation and rights

The political agenda of eco-social policy seeks to create synergies between social justice and ecological goals, such as mitigating climate change. While the concept already has a strong theoretical foundation, and many concrete policy instruments have been proposed, support for eco-social policy is still insufficient to mobilize political action. We assume that one cause of this lack of action are the diverging interests and ideologies of different classes. In this article we apply a class perspective and conduct an empirical study to explore class support for and opposition to eco-social policy. We use data from a representative survey in Germany and identify nine class fractions, based on Bourdieu's concept of social space. We first compare the carbon footprints of the classes, to determine their varying degrees of responsibility for supporting political efforts to mitigate climate change. We then compare class support for eco-social policy, considering the dimensions of redistribution, regulation and rights. We find that the economic upper class – a fraction equating closely with the ruling class – and the old working class oppose eco-social policy the most. The cultural upper class are the strongest proponents of eco-social policy. The lower-class fractions showed considerable concern about the costs associated with eco-social policy. We conclude that a stronger focus on the social justice element when designing and advocating for eco-social policy could lead to greater support from the lower classes and help to build eco-social welfare states that offer protection in times of increasing social and ecological risks.

Depicting Bourdieu's Concepts as a Set of Stackable and Transparent Lenses

AbstractPierre Bourdieu's concepts of capital, field and habitus were originally used to understand inequalities in education in the 1970's. Today they are readily applied in other disciplines and contexts. This paper firstly explores the author's understanding of the concepts of capital, field and habitus as a depiction as a set of lenses, and suggests the application of this framework to further understand the experiences and trajectories of pre‐registration nursing students to contribute to improvements in policy and service provision.

STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN ANGOLA

This article aims to analyse the ongoing structural violence in Angola and outline the theoretical framework that are associated with it. Despite the end of the long civil war and the glimmer of peace, post-Cold War and political parties´ ideologies have deeply dived the country up to now. The MPLA government has used brutality against the opposition and incited physical and symbolic violence against the Bakongo and Ovimbundu ethnic groups. Indeed, the signing of the ceasefire in 2002 after the death of Jonas Savimbi did not bring true reconciliation in Angola. Political motivated crimes, the use of excessive force and brutality, kidnapping, mass killing and human rights abuse are common in Angola. Hence, the following guidingquestion arises: How can structural violence be fought in Angola? The theoretical research was based on Bourdieu's concepts of symbolic violence. Qualitative, bibliographic, documentary and empirical studies, with the collection of secondary data were carried out. The results can be fundamental in the search for solutions to promote reconciliation, tolerance and social cohesion through the peaceful resolution of conflicts for the progress of Angola and the humanity as well.

Exploring the hidden demands for patients’ resources: How health researchers risk excluding patients from patient and public involvement in health research during recruitment

Patient involvement in health research is widely recognized to promote effective collaboration between health researchers and patients in endeavors to develop healthcare systems. Policy documents and research strategies stress the benefits of collaborative health research with patients. However, patient recruitment depends not only on health researchers' decisions but also on other key factors: patients' competencies and the structural framework of the healthcare and academic sectors. This article is a modest attempt to explain challenges connected to recruitment, as health researchers seek to involve citizens in health research. Through interviews with nurses and doctors who conduct research, I describe how and why different patients are recruited into research in the Danish healthcare system. I apply Bourdieu's concepts of field, cultural capital, and habitus to analyze how health researchers assess patients' social competencies as part of the recruitment process. I conclude that health researchers' positions shape the competencies and knowledge that are considered legitimate and can operate as capital in this complex and dynamic arena. Therefore, forms of competencies that can function as capital are unequally distributed and recruitment risks excluding marginalized and disadvantaged groups from becoming involved. The study contributes to the literature on participatory practices and highlights the hidden social demands that are produced between the healthcare sector and academic sector by understanding the experiences of health researchers and how they value communicative skills and knowledge about the healthcare sector. The paper ends with suggestions for future directions.

Towards an understanding of quality and inclusivity in human‐environment experiences

AbstractAs calls grow for relational approaches to nature and wellbeing research that consider reciprocity in human‐environment interactions, the concept of affordances is gaining importance as a useful way of thinking about nature experiences. Affordances provide a framework to enable individualised conceptions of nature by focusing on what is functionally meaningful to people. However, affordance thinking is currently limited in its ability to help us understand how peoples' background, culture and circumstances shape interactions with nature ‐ a critical issue with respect to inclusivity and the under‐representation of some sections of society. Bourdieu's theory of practice is a well‐established set of ‘thinking tools’ which potentially help addresses these influences. It examines how our social environment may pattern our practices, attitudes, and perceptions. In this paper, we review the various applications of affordances before providing an overview of how Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, capital and field can complement, and be integrated with, affordance thinking for novel applications to greenspace research. Bridging these areas of thinking will facilitate development of a more intersectional and complete understanding of nature experiences, including the quality and inclusivity of green and natural spaces.

Experiences from Muhammadiyah on Practices of Multicultural Education: Analysis Through Bourdieu's Concept of Social Capital

This article aims to answer the question of whether a multicultural perspective has been implemented in higher education. Muhammadiyah, an Islamic organization, has a strategic role in building and developing multicultural education in Indonesia. Ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity is critical for Muhammadiyah Education, so a multicultural perspective becomes the center of attention. Until now, the education practice organized by Muhammadiyah tries to practice a multicultural perspective so that it does not reject students from non-Muslim religions, diverse ethnicities, and varied cultures. All students are treated equally without being differentiated because they come from different religions and do not even have a Muhammadiyah background. This research is an analytical qualitative method with case studies approach. Therefore, teachers or lecturers, in providing knowledge and transferring values, need to understand clearly the diversity of students or students they face. Hence, a multicultural perspective becomes one of the requirements for lecturers or teachers to understand. This article used the perspective of social capital theory from Pierre Bourdieu to analyze the capital used in multicultural education at Muhammadiyah Universities, such as Universitas Ahmad Dahlan and Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta.

Competence in multiple foreign languages as cultural capital in family language policy: Parents’ perceptions

AbstractFamily language policy for children's foreign language learning has emerged as an important topic for research on language education policy and second language learning in general. Whilst there is no shortage of studies that examine how parents engage in the formation and transformation of family foreign language education policies, little has been known as to how parents perceive the value of multilingual competence which influences their decisions about how their children's foreign language learning should be planned and resourced. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital, this multiple‐case study explored the perceptions of the parents from 16 middle‐class families with children aged 6–14 in Shanghai via interviews (with their children as well) and textual data. Data analysis reveals that parents perceived the language‐derived cultural capital as measured by its exchangeable social benefits at present or in the future. Their perceptions were thus divided as manifested in the three distinctive approaches they took to conceptualize their children's competence in multiple foreign languages as cultural capital, that is, the extra‐point view (language competence as advantage), immediate deficiency view (lack of such competence as immediate disadvantage), and prospective deficiency view (lack of competence as disadvantage in a future scenario).

Maternal COVID vaccination and breastfeeding during a pandemic: Habitus and health behavior decision making.

To examine the influence of habitus on women's health behavior regarding breastfeeding and subsequent COVID-19 vaccination. A qualitative descriptive design, guided by Pierre Bourdieu's concept of habitus. Eighteen women who were postpartum, breastfeeding, and vaccinated against COVID- 19 either during pregnancy or while breastfeeding postpartum. Individual semi-structured interviews. Two major themes shaped participants' habitus: health-focused knowledge, and attitudes and beliefs. Attitudes and beliefs included five subthemes: (1) exposure/acceptance/expectations from family, (2) community acceptance of breastfeeding and COVID-19 vaccination, (3) socioeconomic status, (4) easily accessed support, and (5) outside experiences and exposure. An individual's habitus impacts one's knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs and interacts with past behaviors when discussing options for infant feeding and health promoting behaviors such as vaccinations. A better understanding of how health care providers assess and utilize habitus in clinical management is needed.

Present Pasts of Colonial Modernity: Embroideries by Lucie Kamuswekera

Present Pasts of Colonial Modernity: Embroideries by Lucie Kamuswekera