H.W.

Schfer, Universitt Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

Habitus-Analysis
Identities and Strategies, Fields and Social Space According to Pierre Bourdieu - Models for Research on Religion and Culture

2014, Approx. 230 p. 20 illus..

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 Bourdieus general social theory. The methods are focused on individual and collective actors such as social and religious movements. Habitusanalysis 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 to transnational 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.

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