Knowing Your Place

The Formation and Sustenance of Class-Based Place Identity

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ID12633853
AutoresD S Robertson (University of Stirling, autor correspondente), Douglas Robertson
Ano2013
Volume30
Fascículo4
Páginas368-383
Data de publicação2013-01-10
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHousing Theory and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1403-6096 • E-ISSN: 1651-2278
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14036096.2012.755472
OpenAlexW2022729453
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas51

This paper argues that the significance of place has for too long been overlooked within housing studies, rarely meriting more consideration than providing a descriptive backdrop. The emphasis on descriptive backdrop is due to place more often being examined and conceptualized in physical terms, rather than as a social construct. Only through understanding how place becomes bonded to a specific class-based identity can the explanatory potential of place be fully realized. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to engage with Bourdieu’s “theory of practice”, as it embraces the different forms of capital, their respective symbolic constructions and how these interplay within his twin notions of “field” and “habitus”. By using Bourdieu’s theoretical framework to analyse empirical data derived from the Scottish city of Stirling, it is possible to reveal just how class-based place identities are constructed and reproduced. Conceptualizing place in such terms can enhance our understanding of social structures, social hierarchies and how the process of social change influences and impacts upon housing. Revealing the processes by which individuals come to “know their place” addresses a long-acknowledged weakness in housing studies

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