Elizabeth B Silva
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 130423 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elizabeth B Silva |
| PRENOMES | Elizabeth B |
| SOBRENOME | Silva |
| ASSINATURA | SILVA E B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9946-4598 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 268 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Cultural Capital
Cultural capital is a rich concept to explore the workings of culture in patterns of social differentiation. It was developed by Bourdieu in the mid‐1960s, in the context of investigations of what, beyond economic assets, was needed to explain educational attainment. The chief finding was that dispositions inherited from family are fundamental to school success. As standards of assessment favor higher classes, better‐off children perform higher. …
Habitus
This paper presents a contribution of a set of interrelated innovative thinking to revitalize the sociological understanding of the notion of the habitus. It discusses contributions by sociologists exploring the sources of Bourdieu's inspiration from psychology and psychoanalysis to the development of the concept, and brings in new thinking inspired by authors and frameworks that branch out of sociology to bring into sociology fresher thinking. T…
Unity and Fragmentation of the Habitus
This paper examines a unitary notion of the habitus present in Bourdieu's early works and its transformation along his sociological career, to later conceptions of a fragmented habitus concept to examine contemporary relationality and social change. The career of the concept of habitus in Bourdieu shows that interplays of habitus and fields are seen to demand increasing labour of integration from individuals as social life becomes more differenti…
Class in Contemporary Britain
The paper discusses the salience of class in Britain in relation to the experiment of the BBC-academic partnership of the Great British Class Survey (GBCS). It addresses the claimed inauguration of a third phase in class analysis in the UK sparked by the experiment. This is done by considering three main issues. First, the GBCS experiment is situated in the context of various explorations of cultural class analyses, and chiefly in relation to the…
Classe social e gênero
Este artigo discute até que ponto as posições de classe na Grã-Bretanha contemporânea foram herdadas dos pais e que tipo de escolhas em termos conjugais (e seus efeitos) homens e mulheres fazem em posições sociais diferentes. De modo inovador, o artigo investiga os diferentes ativos herdados de pais e mães por filhos e filhas, visando a um exame refinado dos efeitos de gênero, ainda não presente na literatura. Discriminam-se também as escolhas co…
Field Analysis in Cultural Sociology
The idea of field analysis has been championed as an alternative to 'variable based' accounts of social life, and offers the potential for cross-fertilization with complexity theory and forms of 'descriptive' research. Yet, the Bourdieusian roots of field analysis pose challenges as well as advantages, given the widespread critique of reductionist elements in Bourdieu's thinking. This introduction to the special issue lays out how Bourdieu concei…
Materials in the Field
The paper explores the central role of artworks in the field of contemporary art. It is based on an ethnographic study of the conservation laboratory at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and draws from three detailed case studies where the temporal and spatial trajectory of artworks led to processes of competition, collaboration, and repositioning among the agents involved in the acquisition, exhibition and conservation of these artwork…
Introduction
Cultural capital of couples
Introduction to Critical Concepts
In this Special Section of Sociological Research Online we aim to take stock of the sociological imagination which is applied in making sense of contemporary ways of living, reflecting on the conceptual frameworks that are being used, asking whether existing analytical tools have kept apace with changes and with continuities in family life, intimacies and personal relationships today
Domestic Relations in Brazil
Grounded in literature review and an ethnographic study, this article examines contemporary Brazilian domestic life. Relations among women (employers and maids) and between women and men are analyzed with a focus on the home as a space in which gender, race, and class inequalities are constantly reproduced. The article argues that what happens in domestic life is constitutive of wider social divisions and that the domestic is a universe integral …
Displaying Desire and Distinction in Housing
The article discusses the significance of cultural capital for the understanding of the field of housing in contemporary Britain. It explores the relationship between housing and the position of individuals in social space mapped out by means of a multiple correspondence analysis. It considers the material aspects of housing and the changing contexts that are linked to the creation and display of desire for social position and distinction express…
What's [Yet] to be Seen? Re-Using Qualitative Data
This paper considers current debates about re-using qualitative research data by reflecting on its implications for the nature of social science knowledge created in this process and the ways in which the disclosure of researchers' practices are linked with the making of professional academic careers. It examines a research project using two different approaches - a 'virtual' and a 'classic' ethnography - to argue that issues concerned with re-us…
Introduction cultural capital and inequality
In this special issue of Cultural Trends we report on selected and provisional findings of a large-scale research inquiry into cultural tastes, knowledge and forms of cultural participation in contemporary Britain, considered in their relations to some of the key indicators of social divisions and differences: class, gender, ethnicity, education, residence, income etc. The inquiry - Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: A Critical Investigation …
Distinction through visual art
Visual art is one of the fields where, according to Bourdieu, culture is used to reproduce the class structure. Like other items in the cultural repertoire, paintings, as major examples of visual art, imply social divisions in how they are engaged with by artists, critics and audiences. Within the Bourdieusian framework, cultural engagements with paintings are interpreted as indicators of social position, since appreciation depends on a trained c…
Homologies of Social Space and Elective Affinities
This article discusses homologies of social space by considering the coherence of elective affinities identified in research on cultural capital when the same person was asked for similar sorts of information in both a survey questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. It shows the methodological complexities of situating individual lives within social contexts, by considering the processual and fluid accounts of social space emerging in the s…
The judgement of taste and social position in focus group research
Género e Ciencia
La cuestión fundamental para discutir sobre género y las ciencias radica en la pregunta:¿cómo el feminismo está cambiando la ciencia? La autora se centra en los efectos que ha tenido el feminismo en la desestabilización de las categorías y divisiones tradicionales en diversos campos del conocimiento. Esa desestabilización conlleva una estrategia de visibilidad y contabilidad de aspectos que hasta ahora habían sido dejados de lado y que ha llevado…
Conhecimientos no cotidiano
La autora discute los antecedentes y consecuencias que tienen la construcción de nuestras categorías de conocimiento en la vida cotidiana y en la práctica científica. Mantiene que la elección de lo que es importante en el campo del conocimiento no es el resultado sólo de criterios metodológicos y científicos. Para mostrarlo, examina la tensión existente entre la metodología cuantitativa y la cualitativa como metodologías convencionales para obten…
Gender, home and family in cultural capital theory
The paper argues that Bourdieu's stress on early familiarization for the highest value of cultural capital is closely linked to his idea, strongly emphasized inDistinction, about the role of family and domestic life for individual development and social positions. The role of women, as mothers and homemakers, is crucial in this process. Yet, Bourdieu defines social origin as deriving from the father. The centrality to Bourdieu's thinking of a res…
Time and Emotion in Studies of Household Technologies
In this article I situate studies of household technologies within the overall context of technological studies, in particular in relation to time and the significance of the labour of women in the home. I then discuss the classic studies of household technologies. This perspective was developed mainly in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s. It emphasizes the conservative power of technologies, asserting that they have had no positive impact on housew…
The Cook, the Cooker and the Gendering of the Kitchen
This article combines the approaches of actor-network theory and poststructuralism to consider how a household technology has interacted with patterns of gender hierarchies over time. Two major innovations in cooking technologies are analysed in relation to cooking activities and the related conceptions of women's roles in families, which are central to these concerns. The first technological development is the thermostat oven control, introduced…
Good Enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood
1. Good Enough Mothering? Editor's Introduction Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva 2. The Transformation of Mothering Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva 3. Deconstructing Motherhood Carol Smart 4. Mothering and Social Responsibilities in a Cross-Cultural Perspective Henrietta L. Moore 5. Diversity in Patterns of Parenting and Household Formation Carolyn Baylis 6. Mothers, Workers or Wives? Policy approaches to supporting lone mothers in comparative perspective Jan…
Gender, home and family in cultural capital theory
The paper argues that Bourdieu's stress on early familiarization for the highest value of cultural capital is closely linked to his idea, strongly emphasized inDistinction, about the role of family and domestic life for individual development and social positions. The role of women, as mothers and homemakers, is crucial in this process. Yet, Bourdieu defines social origin as deriving from the father. The centrality to Bourdieu's thinking of a res…
Field Analysis in Cultural Sociology
The idea of field analysis has been championed as an alternative to 'variable based' accounts of social life, and offers the potential for cross-fertilization with complexity theory and forms of 'descriptive' research. Yet, the Bourdieusian roots of field analysis pose challenges as well as advantages, given the widespread critique of reductionist elements in Bourdieu's thinking. This introduction to the special issue lays out how Bourdieu concei…
Unity and Fragmentation of the Habitus
This paper examines a unitary notion of the habitus present in Bourdieu's early works and its transformation along his sociological career, to later conceptions of a fragmented habitus concept to examine contemporary relationality and social change. The career of the concept of habitus in Bourdieu shows that interplays of habitus and fields are seen to demand increasing labour of integration from individuals as social life becomes more differenti…
Introduction
Distinction through visual art
Visual art is one of the fields where, according to Bourdieu, culture is used to reproduce the class structure. Like other items in the cultural repertoire, paintings, as major examples of visual art, imply social divisions in how they are engaged with by artists, critics and audiences. Within the Bourdieusian framework, cultural engagements with paintings are interpreted as indicators of social position, since appreciation depends on a trained c…
Materials in the Field
The paper explores the central role of artworks in the field of contemporary art. It is based on an ethnographic study of the conservation laboratory at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and draws from three detailed case studies where the temporal and spatial trajectory of artworks led to processes of competition, collaboration, and repositioning among the agents involved in the acquisition, exhibition and conservation of these artwork…
Cultural capital of couples
Introduction cultural capital and inequality
In this special issue of Cultural Trends we report on selected and provisional findings of a large-scale research inquiry into cultural tastes, knowledge and forms of cultural participation in contemporary Britain, considered in their relations to some of the key indicators of social divisions and differences: class, gender, ethnicity, education, residence, income etc. The inquiry - Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: A Critical Investigation …
What's [Yet] to be Seen? Re-Using Qualitative Data
This paper considers current debates about re-using qualitative research data by reflecting on its implications for the nature of social science knowledge created in this process and the ways in which the disclosure of researchers' practices are linked with the making of professional academic careers. It examines a research project using two different approaches - a 'virtual' and a 'classic' ethnography - to argue that issues concerned with re-us…
Habitus
This paper presents a contribution of a set of interrelated innovative thinking to revitalize the sociological understanding of the notion of the habitus. It discusses contributions by sociologists exploring the sources of Bourdieu's inspiration from psychology and psychoanalysis to the development of the concept, and brings in new thinking inspired by authors and frameworks that branch out of sociology to bring into sociology fresher thinking. T…
Homologies of Social Space and Elective Affinities
This article discusses homologies of social space by considering the coherence of elective affinities identified in research on cultural capital when the same person was asked for similar sorts of information in both a survey questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. It shows the methodological complexities of situating individual lives within social contexts, by considering the processual and fluid accounts of social space emerging in the s…
The Cook, the Cooker and the Gendering of the Kitchen
This article combines the approaches of actor-network theory and poststructuralism to consider how a household technology has interacted with patterns of gender hierarchies over time. Two major innovations in cooking technologies are analysed in relation to cooking activities and the related conceptions of women's roles in families, which are central to these concerns. The first technological development is the thermostat oven control, introduced…
Displaying Desire and Distinction in Housing
The article discusses the significance of cultural capital for the understanding of the field of housing in contemporary Britain. It explores the relationship between housing and the position of individuals in social space mapped out by means of a multiple correspondence analysis. It considers the material aspects of housing and the changing contexts that are linked to the creation and display of desire for social position and distinction express…
Time and Emotion in Studies of Household Technologies
In this article I situate studies of household technologies within the overall context of technological studies, in particular in relation to time and the significance of the labour of women in the home. I then discuss the classic studies of household technologies. This perspective was developed mainly in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s. It emphasizes the conservative power of technologies, asserting that they have had no positive impact on housew…
Introduction to Critical Concepts
In this Special Section of Sociological Research Online we aim to take stock of the sociological imagination which is applied in making sense of contemporary ways of living, reflecting on the conceptual frameworks that are being used, asking whether existing analytical tools have kept apace with changes and with continuities in family life, intimacies and personal relationships today
Class in Contemporary Britain
The paper discusses the salience of class in Britain in relation to the experiment of the BBC-academic partnership of the Great British Class Survey (GBCS). It addresses the claimed inauguration of a third phase in class analysis in the UK sparked by the experiment. This is done by considering three main issues. First, the GBCS experiment is situated in the context of various explorations of cultural class analyses, and chiefly in relation to the…
Classe social e gênero
Este artigo discute até que ponto as posições de classe na Grã-Bretanha contemporânea foram herdadas dos pais e que tipo de escolhas em termos conjugais (e seus efeitos) homens e mulheres fazem em posições sociais diferentes. De modo inovador, o artigo investiga os diferentes ativos herdados de pais e mães por filhos e filhas, visando a um exame refinado dos efeitos de gênero, ainda não presente na literatura. Discriminam-se também as escolhas co…
The judgement of taste and social position in focus group research
Good Enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood
1. Good Enough Mothering? Editor's Introduction Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva 2. The Transformation of Mothering Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva 3. Deconstructing Motherhood Carol Smart 4. Mothering and Social Responsibilities in a Cross-Cultural Perspective Henrietta L. Moore 5. Diversity in Patterns of Parenting and Household Formation Carolyn Baylis 6. Mothers, Workers or Wives? Policy approaches to supporting lone mothers in comparative perspective Jan…
Good Enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood
1. Good Enough Mothering? Editor's Introduction Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva 2. The Transformation of Mothering Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva 3. Deconstructing Motherhood Carol Smart 4. Mothering and Social Responsibilities in a Cross-Cultural Perspective Henrietta L. Moore 5. Diversity in Patterns of Parenting and Household Formation Carolyn Baylis 6. Mothers, Workers or Wives? Policy approaches to supporting lone mothers in comparative perspective Jan…
The Cook, the Cooker and the Gendering of the Kitchen
This article combines the approaches of actor-network theory and poststructuralism to consider how a household technology has interacted with patterns of gender hierarchies over time. Two major innovations in cooking technologies are analysed in relation to cooking activities and the related conceptions of women's roles in families, which are central to these concerns. The first technological development is the thermostat oven control, introduced…
Time and Emotion in Studies of Household Technologies
In this article I situate studies of household technologies within the overall context of technological studies, in particular in relation to time and the significance of the labour of women in the home. I then discuss the classic studies of household technologies. This perspective was developed mainly in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s. It emphasizes the conservative power of technologies, asserting that they have had no positive impact on housew…
The judgement of taste and social position in focus group research
Género e Ciencia
La cuestión fundamental para discutir sobre género y las ciencias radica en la pregunta:¿cómo el feminismo está cambiando la ciencia? La autora se centra en los efectos que ha tenido el feminismo en la desestabilización de las categorías y divisiones tradicionales en diversos campos del conocimiento. Esa desestabilización conlleva una estrategia de visibilidad y contabilidad de aspectos que hasta ahora habían sido dejados de lado y que ha llevado…
Conhecimientos no cotidiano
La autora discute los antecedentes y consecuencias que tienen la construcción de nuestras categorías de conocimiento en la vida cotidiana y en la práctica científica. Mantiene que la elección de lo que es importante en el campo del conocimiento no es el resultado sólo de criterios metodológicos y científicos. Para mostrarlo, examina la tensión existente entre la metodología cuantitativa y la cualitativa como metodologías convencionales para obten…
Gender, home and family in cultural capital theory
The paper argues that Bourdieu's stress on early familiarization for the highest value of cultural capital is closely linked to his idea, strongly emphasized inDistinction, about the role of family and domestic life for individual development and social positions. The role of women, as mothers and homemakers, is crucial in this process. Yet, Bourdieu defines social origin as deriving from the father. The centrality to Bourdieu's thinking of a res…
Introduction cultural capital and inequality
In this special issue of Cultural Trends we report on selected and provisional findings of a large-scale research inquiry into cultural tastes, knowledge and forms of cultural participation in contemporary Britain, considered in their relations to some of the key indicators of social divisions and differences: class, gender, ethnicity, education, residence, income etc. The inquiry - Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: A Critical Investigation …
Distinction through visual art
Visual art is one of the fields where, according to Bourdieu, culture is used to reproduce the class structure. Like other items in the cultural repertoire, paintings, as major examples of visual art, imply social divisions in how they are engaged with by artists, critics and audiences. Within the Bourdieusian framework, cultural engagements with paintings are interpreted as indicators of social position, since appreciation depends on a trained c…
Homologies of Social Space and Elective Affinities
This article discusses homologies of social space by considering the coherence of elective affinities identified in research on cultural capital when the same person was asked for similar sorts of information in both a survey questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. It shows the methodological complexities of situating individual lives within social contexts, by considering the processual and fluid accounts of social space emerging in the s…
What's [Yet] to be Seen? Re-Using Qualitative Data
This paper considers current debates about re-using qualitative research data by reflecting on its implications for the nature of social science knowledge created in this process and the ways in which the disclosure of researchers' practices are linked with the making of professional academic careers. It examines a research project using two different approaches - a 'virtual' and a 'classic' ethnography - to argue that issues concerned with re-us…
Displaying Desire and Distinction in Housing
The article discusses the significance of cultural capital for the understanding of the field of housing in contemporary Britain. It explores the relationship between housing and the position of individuals in social space mapped out by means of a multiple correspondence analysis. It considers the material aspects of housing and the changing contexts that are linked to the creation and display of desire for social position and distinction express…
Domestic Relations in Brazil
Grounded in literature review and an ethnographic study, this article examines contemporary Brazilian domestic life. Relations among women (employers and maids) and between women and men are analyzed with a focus on the home as a space in which gender, race, and class inequalities are constantly reproduced. The article argues that what happens in domestic life is constitutive of wider social divisions and that the domestic is a universe integral …
Introduction
Cultural capital of couples
Introduction to Critical Concepts
In this Special Section of Sociological Research Online we aim to take stock of the sociological imagination which is applied in making sense of contemporary ways of living, reflecting on the conceptual frameworks that are being used, asking whether existing analytical tools have kept apace with changes and with continuities in family life, intimacies and personal relationships today
Field Analysis in Cultural Sociology
The idea of field analysis has been championed as an alternative to 'variable based' accounts of social life, and offers the potential for cross-fertilization with complexity theory and forms of 'descriptive' research. Yet, the Bourdieusian roots of field analysis pose challenges as well as advantages, given the widespread critique of reductionist elements in Bourdieu's thinking. This introduction to the special issue lays out how Bourdieu concei…
Materials in the Field
The paper explores the central role of artworks in the field of contemporary art. It is based on an ethnographic study of the conservation laboratory at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and draws from three detailed case studies where the temporal and spatial trajectory of artworks led to processes of competition, collaboration, and repositioning among the agents involved in the acquisition, exhibition and conservation of these artwork…
Classe social e gênero
Este artigo discute até que ponto as posições de classe na Grã-Bretanha contemporânea foram herdadas dos pais e que tipo de escolhas em termos conjugais (e seus efeitos) homens e mulheres fazem em posições sociais diferentes. De modo inovador, o artigo investiga os diferentes ativos herdados de pais e mães por filhos e filhas, visando a um exame refinado dos efeitos de gênero, ainda não presente na literatura. Discriminam-se também as escolhas co…
Class in Contemporary Britain
The paper discusses the salience of class in Britain in relation to the experiment of the BBC-academic partnership of the Great British Class Survey (GBCS). It addresses the claimed inauguration of a third phase in class analysis in the UK sparked by the experiment. This is done by considering three main issues. First, the GBCS experiment is situated in the context of various explorations of cultural class analyses, and chiefly in relation to the…
Habitus
This paper presents a contribution of a set of interrelated innovative thinking to revitalize the sociological understanding of the notion of the habitus. It discusses contributions by sociologists exploring the sources of Bourdieu's inspiration from psychology and psychoanalysis to the development of the concept, and brings in new thinking inspired by authors and frameworks that branch out of sociology to bring into sociology fresher thinking. T…
Unity and Fragmentation of the Habitus
This paper examines a unitary notion of the habitus present in Bourdieu's early works and its transformation along his sociological career, to later conceptions of a fragmented habitus concept to examine contemporary relationality and social change. The career of the concept of habitus in Bourdieu shows that interplays of habitus and fields are seen to demand increasing labour of integration from individuals as social life becomes more differenti…
Cultural Capital
Cultural capital is a rich concept to explore the workings of culture in patterns of social differentiation. It was developed by Bourdieu in the mid‐1960s, in the context of investigations of what, beyond economic assets, was needed to explain educational attainment. The chief finding was that dispositions inherited from family are fundamental to school success. As standards of assessment favor higher classes, better‐off children perform higher. …
Sociology (21 obras) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (14 obras) · Social science (14 obras) · Cultural capital (12 obras) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (10 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras)