Beyond Bourdieu

A Reply to Emmet Fox

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ID12903273
AuthorsN Crossley (0000-0003-0969-9121, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Wendy Bottero (0000-0003-1423-7562, University of Manchester)
Year2014
Volume8
Issue2
Pages197-203
Publication date2014-05-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-9755 • E-ISSN: 1749-9763
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1749975513507241
OpenAlexW2074125625
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

In this paper we reply briefly to Emmet Fox’s response to our paper, ‘Worlds, Fields and Networks’. Our reply centres upon three themes. Firstly, we argue that interactionist and network analytic approaches are sensitive to the impact of power, status and inequality in ‘empirical relations’ and we add that it is important to maintain a focus upon such relations when dealing with power, status and inequality because the latter are not only reproduced in the context of the former but may also be challenged therein. Secondly, we argue that habitus are moulded by empirical relations and interactions as much as they mould those interactions and relations. Agency and the potential for creativity in social life are central to both of these first two points. Finally, we discuss the gaps that often open up between what theorists say they want to achieve and what they actually do achieve in their work

Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Creativity · Economics · Empirical research · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Geography · Habitus · Inequality · Positive economics · Power (physics · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Critical Realism in Sociology · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology

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