Bourdieu, Habitus and Social Research

1. Front Matter

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2. An Introduction to Bourdieuian Habitus

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Bourdieu and the Application of Habitus across the Social Sciences

      • Cristina Costa, Mark Murphy

      Pages 3-17

3. Habitus, Transitions and Trajectories

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Egalitarian Habitus: Narratives of Reconstruction in Discourses of Aspiration and Change

      • Garth Stahl

      Pages 21-38

   3. From Parental to Adolescents’ Habitus: Challenges and Insights When Quantifying Bourdieu

      • Katerina Bodovski

      Pages 39-54

   4. Habitus and Graduate Employment: A Re/Structured Structure and the Role of Biographical Research

      • Ciaran Burke

      Pages 55-73

   5. Theorising and Researching the Youth Crime Nexus: Habitus, Reflexivity and the Political Ecology of Social Practices

      • Alan France

      Pages 74-90

4. Habitus Transformed: The Effects of Mobility

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Habitus: Its Transformation and Transfer through Cultural Encounters in Migration

      • Magdalena Nowicka

      Pages 93-110

   3. Learning to Fly: Entering the Youth Mobility Field and Habitus in Ireland and Portugal

      • David Cairns

      Pages 111-125

   4. Moving to the City: Educational Trajectories of Rural Chinese Students in an Elite University

      • He Li

      Pages 126-147

5. Online Habitus

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Academics Online: Fighting for a New Habitus

      • Cristina Costa

      Pages 151-166

   3. Young People and the Web: Understanding Their Engagement with Online Information through the Concept of Habitus

      • Huw Davies

      Pages 167-182

6. Back Matter

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This collection brings together for the first time a set of researchers whose research methodologies centre on Bourdieu's concept of habitus. Full of insight and innovation, the book is an essential read for anyone wanting to know more about approaches to social theory and its application in research.

• Bourdieu
• Habitus
• social research
• social theory
• application
• research methods
• methods
• Pierre Bourdieu

• University of Strathclyde, UK

  Cristina Costa

• University of Glasgow, UK

  Mark Murphy

Katerina Bodovski, Pennsylvania State University, United States Ciaran Burke, University of Ulster, United Kingdom David Cairns, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal Huw Davies, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Alan France, University of Auckland, New Zealand He Li, Renmin University, China Magdalena Nowicka, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Garth Stahl, University of South Australia, Australia

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