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Improving Empirical Scrutiny of the Habitus

A Plea for Incorporating Implicit Association Tests in Sociological Research

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ID2323075
AuthorsJulian Schaap (0000-0002-3656-4225, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, corresponding author), Jeroen Van Der Waal (0000-0001-7565-8155, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), Willem De Koster (0000-0001-9250-2072, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Year2019
Volume53
Issue5
Pages967-976
Publication date2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038519846417
OpenAlexW2944240038
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited40

Many studies invoke the concept of the Bourdieusian habitus to account for a plethora of stratified patterns uncovered by conventional social-scientific methods. However, as a stratum-specific, embodied and largely non-declarative set of dispositions, the role of the habitus in those stratified patterns is typically not adequately scrutinised empirically. Instead, the habitus is often attributed theoretically to an empirically established link between stratification indicators and an outcome of interest. In this research note, we argue that combining conventional methods in stratification research with latency-based measures such as the Implicit Association Test enables better measurement of the habitus. This sociological application of Implicit Association Tests enables researchers to: (1) identify empirically the existence of different habitus among different social strata; and (2) determine their role in the stratified patterns to which they have thus far been attributed theoretically

Cultural capital · Economics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Habitus · Implicit-association test · Normative · Plea · Political science · Positive economics · Scrutiny · Social science · Social stratification · Sociology · Statistics · Stratification (seeds) · Stratified sampling · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Mathematics · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology

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