Jeffrey J Sallaz

Biographic Data

ID241291
NAMEJeffrey J Sallaz
GIVEN NAMESJeffrey J
FAMILY NAMESallaz
SIGNATURESALLAZ J J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arizona
ORCID0000-0001-5821-873X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS314
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT30
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX10

  • Unsustainable

    Jeffrey J SallazARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology2025

  • Toward a Field of Labor Activism

    Open AccessJeffrey J Sallaz, Sara Gia TrongoneARTICLEWork and Occupations2023Cited by: 2References: 7

    A recent upsurge in organizing by workers in the United States presents an opportunity to reconsider the state and fate of the US labor movement. We argue that the conceptual apparatus of strategic action fields offers a tool to contextualize this development. In particular, it shines light upon categorization struggles, delegation of labor within the field, relationships among labor organizations, and strategies to change the rules of the field-…

  • Classification Struggles

    Open AccessJeffrey J SallazARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2020Cited by: 2

  • The Specter of Global China

    Open AccessJeffrey J SallazARTICLEWork and Occupations2019

  • On the Reception of Bourdieu’s Sociology in the World’s Most Equal Societies

    Johs Hjekllbrekke, A Prieur et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    This chapter discusses the reception of Bourdieu in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, which are three of the richest, but also most egalitarian, societies in the world, with strong welfare state traditions. The sympathy toward Bourdieu’s thinking in Scandinavia may be linked to a resonance for his critique of domination and of neoliberalism; the strong resistance his thinking also has encountered stems from a denial of its relevance for Scandinavia. F…

  • Bourdieu and Schutz

    Will Atkinson, Thomas Medvetz et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Chapter abstract This chapter considers the relationship between the sociologies of Pierre Bourdieu and Alfred Schutz. It begins by making plain the shared rootedness of many of their ideas in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and tracing the different directions in which they took that influence, given the dissimilar states of the intellectual fields they were positioned in. It then goes on to compare the two thinkers on philosophical anthropo…

  • Bourdieu and the Sociology of Intellectual Life

    Thomas Medvetz, Jeffrey J SallazBOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Chapter abstract Having grown up in the relative cultural backwater of Béarn, in southwestern France, Pierre Bourdieu found himself wrenched and jolted by his earliest encounters with French intellectual society. His perceptions, tastes, and dispositions offered constant reminders that he had not been made for this world. But the same disjuncture yielded productive insights and made Bourdieu into an accidental anthropologist of intellectual life.…

  • The Transdisciplinary Contribution of Pierre Bourdieu to the Study of the Academic Field and Intellectuals

    Christophe Charle, Thomas Medvetz et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Bourdieu’s contribution to the study of the academic field and intellectuals rests on a series of novel concepts and methodological rules. This chapter focuses on three. The first is Bourdieu’s use of history and the historical method, which he combined with sociology to produce a method for establishing critical distance between researcher and empirical object. The second is Bourdieu’s penchant for international comparisons. Contrary to the obje…

  • Habitus and Beyond

    Claudio E Benzecry, Thomas Medvetz et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Chapter abstract Pierre Bourdieu coined the concept of habitus to capture the connection between embodiment, cognition, processes of singularization and temporalization, and the collective. This chapter discusses the aporias that result from this semantic ambition. It starts with a presentation of the many uses of habitus in Bourdieu’s own work; what follows is how the concept has been deployed in research by US sociologists; the third and main s…

  • Bourdieu’s Uneven Influence on Anglophone Canadian Sociology

    John Mclevey, Allyson Stokes et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most influential and widely cited figures in anglophone Canadian sociology. Since the first decade of the twenty-first century, in particular, his theories have guided research in areas such as the sociology of culture, education, social theory, social networks, and social capital. This chapter presents a content analysis of journal articles to better understand Bourdieu’s influence on anglophone Canadian sociology. …

  • Bourdieu and Geometric Data Analysis

    F Lebaron, Brigitte Le Roux et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Chapter abstract The extent to which the concepts of field and social space are linked to a concrete mode of empirical research—and in particular to a set of original statistical tools—has seldom been acknowledged. This chapter aims to re-establish the close link between the field concept and geometric data analysis (GDA), Bourdieu’s preferred technique for mapping the “social distances” between individuals. The elective affinity between the two …

  • The Relevance of Bourdieu’s Concepts for Studying the Intersections of Poverty, Race, and Culture

    Kerry Woodward, Thomas Medvetz et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Chapter abstract The connection between poverty and culture has long been a contentious one in the sociological literature. While distancing itself from the culture of poverty theory of the past, recent scholarship seeks to provide a deeper analysis of the relationship between structure and culture and how this relates to poverty. This chapter argues that the work of Pierre Bourdieu—and the significant body of literature that has built upon his k…

  • Bourdieu’s Unlikely Contribution to the Human Sciences

    J Levi Martins, John Levi Martin et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Chapter abstract The author of this chapter proposes that we consider Bourdieu’s work neither on its own terms, nor in the terms of the postwar French academic field, but in terms of the general problems that it solved. When we do so, we find that Bourdieu developed lines of thinking that had stalled in Germany and the United States. The former was the field theoretic tradition associated with Gestalt psychology and empirical phenomenology; the s…

  • Bourdieu in the Post-Communist World

    Liliana Pop, Thomas Medvetz et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    The collapse of the communist regimes in the former Soviet bloc and the subsequent economic, political, social, and cultural transformations opened up new challenges for social science research. Working with the methodological and conceptual tools of Pierre Bourdieu, including habitus, field, capital, symbolic power, hysteresis, and the logic of honor, among others, scholars have defined and addressed four clusters of important research questions…

  • Bourdieu’s International Circulation

    Marco Santoro, Andrea Gallelli et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    An influential figure in the French intellectual field since the 1960s, Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) is increasingly influential also—and probably mainly—on a global scale. In fact, the circulation of Bourdieu’s ideas and concepts outside of France greatly exceeds their transatlantic importation, both temporally and spatially. His works circulated in different parts of “old Europe” well before their renown in the United States, especially in count…

  • Bourdieu and Organizations

    Tim Hallett, Matthew Gougherty et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    This chapter examines the relationship between Bourdieu’s sociology and organizational research, some of the ways he has been influential, how his ideas have been used, and new opportunities to push his research. In helping to spark the cultural turn in sociology, Bourdieu indirectly influenced the new institutionalist approach within organizational sociology. Although organizations were rarely the primary focus of his own work, we argue that the…

  • Tensions, Actors, and Inventions

    Jens Arnholtz, Thomas Medvetz et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Chapter abstract This chapter argues that Bourdieu’s sociology of the state outlines an interesting research program, which focuses on innovation and transformation rather than only domination and reproduction. The chapter begins by presenting some of the epistemological and conceptual elements found in Bourdieu’s sociology of the state. The chapter then goes on to focus on his often overlooked sociohistorical approach to state formation, which i…

  • Reading Bourdieu in South Africa

    Karl Von Holdt, Thomas Medvetz et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Pierre Bourdieu is the quintessential theorist of domination and social order. South Africa presents an exemplar from the Global South—fractured, contested, disputative, disorderly, violent. This chapter examines Bourdieu’s concepts of order through the jagged realities of South African society, at the same time exploring South African society through the conceptual lenses provided by Bourdieu, and in the process rethinking both. The author uses …

  • A Concise Genealogy and Anatomy of Habitus

    L Wacquant, Thomas Medvetz et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Chapter abstract The concept of habitus plays a central role in Bourdieu’s dispositional theory of action, itself part of his lifelong effort to develop a science of practice and a correlative critique of domination. Retracing the concept’s philosophical origins and its early uses by Bourdieu clears up four recurrent misunderstandings about the concept: first, habitus is never the replica of a single social structure, but a multilayered and dynam…

  • Four Transversal Principles for Putting Bourdieu to Work

    L Wacquant, Thomas Medvetz et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Chapter abstract This chapter spotlights four transversal principles that undergird and animate Bourdieu’s research practice, and can fruitfully guide inquiry on any empirical front: the Bachelardian imperative of epistemological rupture and vigilance; the Weberian command to effect the triple historicization of the agent (habitus), the world (social space, of which field is but a subtype), and the categories of the analyst (epistemic reflexivity…

  • The Poverty of Philosophy

    M Burawoy, Thomas Medvetz et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Chapter abstract Marx and Bourdieu embark from similar criticisms of philosophers as suffering from the illusion that ideas make history—what Marx calls ideology and Bourdieu calls scholastic reason. Accordingly, both turn from the logic of theory to the logic of practice. However, where Marx sees the relations of production as leading to class struggle and revolution, Bourdieu sees bodily practice as instilling symbolic domination through habitu…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu

    Thomas Medvetz, Jeffrey J SallazBOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Pierre Bourdieu was arguably the most important social theorist of the twentieth century. A French sociologist, he produced during his lifetime scores of empirical studies that laid the foundation for a rich theoretical program. These included studies of French colonialism in Algeria, the education system in France, new forms of state power, and the rise of autonomous artistic and scientific fields. Bourdieu’s research program was grounded in con…

  • Bourdieu and the Body

    Catherine Connell, A Mears et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Chapter abstract The work of Pierre Bourdieu provides a framework to see how class position is written on the body and expressed through classed styles of walking, talking, gesturing, eating, drinking, and so forth. This chapter considers how Bourdieu’s work on the body has informed and advanced empirical research on the body. From Bourdieu’s perspective, each body is the visible product of the composition and volumes of class-specific capitals a…

  • Is a Bourdieusian Ethnography Possible

    Thomas Medvetz, Jeffrey J SallazBOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    Chapter abstract This chapter argues that Pierre Bourdieu’s research program is less compatible with ethnography than it first appears. Bourdieu was critical of structuralism, that perspective on the social world that prioritizes general patterns over lived experience, whereas ethnography claims as its raison d’être the elucidation of lived experience. A close reading of Bourdieu’s entire body of writings, however, reveals multiple reservations a…

  • Transnational Social Fields

    Nikko Kauppi, Thomas Medvetz et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu2018

    This chapter excavates Bourdieu’s theoretical insights concerning political sociology to develop a theory of transnational structuration processes. The early Bourdieu implicitly imagined the state as a nationally bounded actor. Only later in his career did he begin to grapple with issues such as globalization, transnationalism, and neoliberalism; and it is this later germ of ideas that this chapter develops. Transnational social fields, this chap…