Capturing habitus : theory, method and reflexivity
Costa, Cristina and Burke, Ciaran and Murphy, Mark (2018) Capturing habitus : theory, method and reflexivity. International Journal of Research and Methods in Education. ISSN 1743-7288
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Abstract
Bourdieu’s career long endeavour was to devise both theoretical and methodological tools that could apprehend and explain the social world and its mechanisms of cultural (re)production and related forms of domination. Amongst the several key concepts developed by Bourdieu, habitus has gained prominence as both a research lens and a research instrument useful to enter individuals’ trajectories and ‘histories’ of practices. While much attention has been paid to the theoretical significance of habitus, less emphasis has been placed on its methodological implications. This paper explores the application of the concept of habitus as both theory and method across two sub-fields of educational research: graduate employment and digital scholarship practices. The findings of this reflexive testing of habitus suggest that bridging the theory-method comes with its own set of challenges for the researcher; challenges which reveal the importance of taking the work of application seriously in research settings.
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Costa, Cristina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2117-8479, Burke, Ciaran and Murphy, Mark;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 62204 Dates: DateEvent11 January 2018Published11 January 2018Published Online29 October 2017AcceptedSubjects: Education > Theory and practice of education Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education
Strategic Research Themes > Society and PolicyDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 01 Nov 2017 11:39 Last modified: 25 Oct 2024 00:24 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/62204