Pluralizing field analysis: Toward a relational understanding of the field of power

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Schmitz ◽  
Daniel Witte ◽  
Vincent Gengnagel
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Field Analysis ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Relational Understanding ◽  
Relative Autonomy ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conceptual Consideration

A crucial yet often-overlooked starting point for any Bourdieusian field analysis is to relate the field under consideration to the ‘field of power’, so as to enable an examination of its relative autonomy or heteronomy, i.e. its relation to other fields of society and to society as a whole. However, Bourdieu and his successors did not implement this key conceptual consideration systematically, or did so peripherally at best. For this reason both the theoretical and the empirical status of the field of power remain, for the most part, unclear. The fundamental philosophy of ‘methodological relationism’ has not been systematically applied, of all things, to a core element of Bourdieu’s theory of society which basically is a theory of power relations. We argue that a relational approach to the field of power is essential for theorizing the relation between (a) fields and (b) fields and the social space.

Digital gifts: Participation and gift exchange in Livejournal communities

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Gift Exchange ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gift Exchanges

This paper explores notions and rationales of gift exchange among participants of the social networking site ‘LiveJournal.’ While gift exchanges can be framed as a form of power relations, this paper argues that they also have the potential to function as a way of forming and maintaining social bonds, and of maintaining individual and collective identity within the virtual social space.

Foreign direct investment, enclaves and liveability: a case study of Korean activities in Hanoi, Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Hyung Min Kim
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production Space

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a core element for global capital flows and a key driver for urban transformation. However, the ways in which FDI flows have been associated with the production of new urban spaces have attracted little academic attention. This research investigates how FDI activities have led to the migration of expatriate workers and their family members who have established ethnic enclaves in search of liveable environments. The paper focuses on the case of Korean activities in the Hanoi Capital Region (HCR) where the growing volume of FDI has facilitated two bipartite activities in geographically separate locations: one in production space for industrial activities in regional areas and the other in the social space for residential and commercial activities in new urban cores. The case study of Korean FDI, the largest investors in Vietnam, and in particular the HCR, depicts wider perspectives beyond a single industrial sector. This research sheds light on new aspects of recent changes in Hanoi, borne of cross-border capital and human mobilities. The ethnic residential enclaves are largely self-contained for intense social interactions, used as a tool to enhance liveability and bounded within commuting distance from the industrial sites.

scholarly journals Free improvisation in choral settings: An ecological perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1321103X2098531
Author(s):  
Eeva Siljamäki
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Instrumental Case Study ◽  
Free Improvisation ◽  
Musical Skills ◽  
Improvisational Theatre ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Potential

This instrumental case study explores and theorizes on the educational potential and value of free collaborative vocal improvisation, a process that enables equal access to music regardless of musical skills. The focus of the article is on the musical activities of an adult choir in Finland that applied tenets from improvisational theatre to facilitate the social and musical processes of free improvisation. This study applies an ecological perspective to understand how improvisation can offer asylum—a physical or conceptual safe space within which an individual can flourish socially and musically—and explore how it is sought, constructed, and supported, and what opportunities it can afford to those participating in it. The analysis shows how the participants used various techniques for seeking asylum, both in and away from their shared social space, when they encountered the inherent discomforts of improvisation. Depending on the social ecology of each situation, the musicking activities provided the participants with the resources to construct both social and musical agency as well as experiences in playful collaborative musical learning and wellbeing. The present study calls for an ecological framework for music education and improvisation that supports musicking in a safe and playful learning environment with a focus on social processes, and which could be considered the starting point for music education at all ages.

scholarly journals Livsstil og energiforbruget - analyseret med bourdieusk optik

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Susanne Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sociological Concept

Lifestyle and energy use: as analysed with concepts from Bourdieu This article focuses on the concept of lifestyle. This is a concept that is widely used in environment studies, but is often used as an empirical rather than theoretical con-cept. The article raises the question as to whether a sociological concept of lifestyle can provide newer insights about the relationship between lifestyle and energy use. The article develops a sociological concept of lifestyle based on the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu. In this framework lifestyle is closely related to the concepts of habitus, field and social space. The article shows how this framework is fruitful as it provides insights into the social processed and dynamics behind energy use. Energy use is here under-stood as salient, related to symbolic competition between different classes and fractions of classes and fundamental power relations. Furthermore the analyses focuses on the reproduction of habits and social struc-tures rather than rapidly changing social patterns, a perspective that often dominates lifestyle analyses.

Negotiation of The Ma’rifah Community Identity In Forming Sufistic Sholihan In Seuruway Community of Aceh Tamiang

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Mohd. Nasir ◽  
Mawardi Mawardi
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Social

This article is based on a variety of Seruway Aceh society phenomenon which is separated into two communities. One of them becomes a representative of the majority and the other as a representative of a minority. Ma’rifah community is a minority that got discriminative treatment from the majority one. Nevertheless, this community was able to expand as a majority. The article is aimed at explaining the relation of the Ma’rifah community in forming Sufistic identity in religious social space in Seruwey Aceh and it is aimed at explaining its effect onthe variation of religious practice. The research is the social anthropology of the ethnographic approach. The data were collected through interview, subject for the research was determined by using purposive sampling. The resultsshow that; first, the Ma’rifah community is successful in developing familial relationships, a close friend and using power relations as capital in forming Sufistic habitus. Second, the Ma’rifah community presented an effect on religion variant, it is not only between majority and minority, but Ma’rifah community itself is separated into several communities, a part of Them still in Sufistic ideology which is opposite of majority, and some others negotiate to be part of the majority

LIBERALISM BEFORE JUSTICE

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 354-371
Author(s):  
Eric MacGilvray
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Ideal Theory ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
Just Society ◽  
The One

Abstract:The ideal theory debate rests on two conflicting claims: that justice is “the first virtue of social systems” (justice first), and that a just society is one in which “everyone accepts and knows that the others accept the same principles of justice” (universal consent). Justice first holds that questions about the meaning of justice — and thus about what an ideally just society would look like — must be settled before we can effectively pursue justice. However, universal consent entails a project of justification that can only take place over time. I propose that we avoid this impasse by treating freedom rather than justice as the “first virtue” of a liberal society. Liberal freedom has two distinct and complementary dimensions, which give rise to two distinct and complementary moral aims: on the one hand, to create the social conditions that make responsible agency possible (republican freedom), and on the other hand to carve out a social space within which the demands of responsible agency are relaxed or absent (market freedom). Striking the appropriate balance between these two dimensions of liberal freedom is irreducibly a matter of judgment. A freedom-centered liberalism therefore requires that we treat justice as the endpoint rather than the starting point of political action, thus severing the link between legitimacy and consent.

scholarly journals Inter-cultural communications and power relations in international tourism commodity chains

2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolai Scherle ◽  
Tim Coles
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Commodity Chains ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Cultures

The internationalisation of tourism has resulted in the mediation of spatially-stretched commodity chains which often transcend international frontiers and which in businesses from different cultures come into contact with one other. This paper examines the social relations in bilateral business co-operations between Moroccan and German enterprises. As a central concept in the social sciences, there are multiple contested theorizations of power and in this paper we adopt a Lukesian starting point. A more precise naming and locating of power is vital to enhancing our understanding of the way in which the tourism product is commodified.

scholarly journals Henimod entreprenant miljøpraksis - en præliminær analyse af dansk miljøekspertise som socialt felt

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Dezalay ◽  
Mikael Rask Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Fluid Field ◽  
Environmental Practice ◽  
Environmental Space ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reflexive Sociology ◽  
The University

From militant to entrepreneu-rial environmental practice: on the construction and trans-formation of a Danish field of environmental expertise By tracing the trajectories of holders of environmental expertise, this article attempts to understand the social construction of environmental protection measures in Denmark. The focus is not on these measures, per se, but rather on them as the product of inter-professional battles in, out and around that state. With an analytical starting point in the reflexive sociology developed by Pierre Bourdieu, the social space in which these struggles are taking place is seen as an open fluid field constituted by a mixture of loosely connected symbolic practices occupying different (and changing) positions within the field of state power. The article argues that the environmental space was initially dominated by a group of older lawyers and social scientists and was reconstructed by the arrival of young engineers and biologists, who came from the radicalized parts of the university milieu and similar social networks. The environmental field has recently developed in several directions. The original experts are still involved in the mainstream technical way of dealing with the environment. At the same time they are links to a new generation of environmental experts engaged in market-oriented symbolic investments in eco-management and accountancy. The success of the environmental movement has caused both renewed interest and a diffusion of the groups of agents at the same time.

Keep it rocking: The social space of Portuguese alternative rock (1980–2010)

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 615-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
Alternative Rock ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Functional Logic ◽  
The Aesthetic

The main goal of our approach is to analyse the social representations of alternative rock in Portugal (or, using a terminology more akin to 1980s Portugal, of the “modern music vanguard”) from 1980 to 2010. This is part of broader research into the 30 years of modernization of the country (from the post-revolutionary period initiated in 1974 on), in which alternative rock is regarded as a significant social practice within the scope of the social, artistic and musical structuring of the country itself. We consider that alternative rock is a subject that is illuminated by Bourdieu’s theory of fields, without overlooking its clear interconnection with ‘art worlds’ or music scenes, and the aesthetic cosmopolitanism of late modernity. The article is a pioneering work on the Portuguese sociology of culture, whose results may be the starting point of a debate to problematize the functional logic of popular music in various Anglo-Saxon settings.

scholarly journals O campo universitário português: transformações e disputas entre 1988 e 2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (82) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Mineiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Relative Autonomy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

This article analyses the Portuguese universities field between 1988 and 2015, laying its foundations on the discourses of 18 current and former deans and leading students and in the social, economic and political changes in that period. At first, we will describe those that, according to social agents, constitute the ten main transformations of the university institutions. Then, we will examine the main points of contention raised by these transformations. Lastly, departing from these transformations and points of contention, we analyze the University as a field, this is, as a relation subset of social space, structured through the positions and dispositions, where the agents struggle for the possession of specific type of capital and that has a relative autonomy in relation to the political and economic power.

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