Bourdieu’s Field Theory and the Social Sciences

1. Introduction: On Doing Field Analysis
James Albright, Deborah Hartman

Part I. Field as Both a Conceptual and Empirical Object of Analysis

2. Drought and Water Policy in the Western USA: Genesis and Structure of a Multi-level Field
Joan Cortinas, Brian F. O’Neill, Franck Poupeau

3. Masculine Learner Identities in the Field of Student-Directed Musical Learning
Garth Stahl, Pete Dale

4. Poetry and the Conditions of Practice: A Field Study
Jen Webb

5. Academic Literacy Support: Challenging the Logic of Practice
Jacqueline Widin

6. Transformations of the Danish Field of Welfare Work: Shifting Forms of Dominated Capital
Jan Thorhauge Frederiksen

7. Breaking from the Field: Participant Observation and Bourdieu’s Participant Objectivation

Emma E. Rowe

Part II. Positionality, Struggle and Legitimation

8. Framing a “Community of Consumption”: Field Theory, Multi-perspectival Discourse Analysis and the Commercialization of Teaching
Jonathan Crichton

9. Reshaping the Field from the Outside in: Aboriginal People and Student Journalists Working Together
Bonita Mason, Chris Thomson, Dawn Bennett, Michelle Johnston

10. Cultural Innovation on the Fringe—the Fields of ‘Limited’ and ‘Extensive’ Production
Mark Gibson, Tony Moore

11. Bourdieusian Reflexivity in Insider Research in Higher Education: Considering Participants as a Critical Audience
Katrina Waite

12. Positioning Participation in the Field of Surfing: Sex, Equity, and Illusion
lisahunter

Part III. Explorations utilising Bourdieu and Other Methodological Approaches

13. Conceptualising Strategies Open to Players Within the Field of Australian Boys’ Education
Deborah Hartman, James Albright

14. Field Theory, Space and Time
Chris Nash

15. Governing Cultural Fields
Scott Brook

16. Thinking like Bourdieu: Completing the Mental Revolution with Legitimation Code Theory
Karl Maton

17. Afterword: Reflecting In/On Field Theory in Practice
Michael Grenfell

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Education, Methodology of the Social Sciences