Bourdieu*: habitus, field, horizons and careers

"For Bourdieu, structure is not only objective in a Levi-Straussian sense. 

Structures can also be highly subjective." p.13.

 

"In one sense, habitus is social inheritance ... but it also implies habit, or unthinking-ness in actions, and 'disposition'. Some dispositions are transferable; fort example, a practical taxonomy can be utilized to find relevance in a new situation." p.14

 

"If habitus brings into focus the subjective end of the equation, field focuses on the objective:" p.15.

"Field is therefore a structured system of social relations at a micro and macro level." p.16.

 

"Education is a field, made up of identifiable interconnecting relations." p.20.

 

"Young people make career decisions within what we refer to as horizons for action. The horizons are the perspectives on and possibilities for action given in any field or intersection of fields." p.97.

 

 

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - population

subjective	objective
culture, linguistic market, upbringing cultural and social capital	class, institutions, education career guidance economic capital

 

Grenfell, M., James, D. (1998) Bourdieu and Education: Acts of Practical Theory. London: Falmer Press.

Career progression: Moving beyond Bourdieu pp.100-103.

and Chapter 9, Theory as Method pp.152-178. diagrams. 

The 4P's in Hodges' model

PURPOSE	PROCESS
PRACTICE*	POLICY

 

Always conscious of how Hodges' model, like many other 'models' is an idealisation. As such we routinely refer to 'social action', 'political process' and 'social process'. 

I have, I suppose, allocated the four P's to the respective domains on a primary context - primary domain basis.^ So 'process' as per time, events, sequence, algorithm, logic, cause-effect.

^first come, first served?