An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Bourdieu, Pierre; Wacquant, Loïc

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“…While such coercive forces help integrate a field, we emphasize that institutions also provide the regulative framework and governance structure to differentiate organizational status through authoritative formality (e.g., rules, standards, categories, and ratings/rankings; see Stinchcombe, 2001) and status competition . Following Bourdieu (Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1992), we further argue that capital is a key factor underlying the regulative differentiation: while the regulative structure and institutional formality require capital investment at the field level, status competition and its outcomes are further contingent on capital at the organizational level.…”

Section: Three Institutional Mechanisms and Differential Organization...mentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Adopting a different perspective, Bourdieu's (1977, 1990; Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1992) field theory highlights a hierarchical structure and stratified positions along a vertical dimension. Involving political processes, a field is a battlefield based on an agonistic game, and conflicts and power struggles are prevalent.…”

Section: Two Field Theories and The Dual Institutional Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Synthesizing the complementary views of these two prominent theories, we argue that there is a dual process of integration and differentiation in an institutional field 1 . While the integration process is the defining feature of a field and the precondition of organizational isomorphism (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983; Meyer & Rowan, 1977), we draw theoretical insights from Bourdieu (1977, 1990; Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1992) to argue that the institutional differentiation process further generates status differentiation and hierarchy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although the classification system is designed and controlled by the elite group, such a “symbolic order” is accepted, at least to a certain degree, by those at the bottom of social hierarchy. In this light, the classification system and shared social norms and knowledge embody the “symbolic power” and “symbolic violence” of the elite group and serve as the “instruments of domination” (Bourdieu, 1984, 1985; Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1992).…”

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Different while being similar: The dual institutional process and differential organizational status

Zhao

2023

British Journal of Sociology

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Connecting the neoinstitutional theory with Bourdieu's field theory, we develop a framework on the dual institutional process of integration and differentiation in a field. While the neoinstitutional theory has focused on similar organizational structures, we shift the research focus to offer an institutional explanation of differential organizational status. Drawing insights from Bourdieu's theory and key concepts, we highlight that the very institutional mechanisms causing isomorphism—regulative forces, normative pressures, and cognitive processes—also generate systematic status differentiation among organizations via their different levels of capital, homologous structures, and various habitus in a field. Our extended framework has theoretical significance in advancing the neoinstitutional theory, the research of status in organizational and economic sociology, and the Bourdieusian perspective. By theorizing status differentiation among organizations, it also adds an important dimension to enrich our understanding of multilevel status and social hierarchies.

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Section: Three Institutional Mechanisms and Differential Organization...mentioning

confidence: 82%

Section: Two Field Theories and The Dual Institutional Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Two Field Theories and The Dual Institutional Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Two Field Theories and The Dual Institutional Processmentioning

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Different while being similar: The dual institutional process and differential organizational status

Zhao

2023

British Journal of Sociology

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“…Bourdieu argues that the status quo or the transformation of a given space depends on the extent to which there is a concordance between the social and mental (cognitive) structures, in other words between the space of positions and the space of dispositions. Under perfect concordance between the two spaces, the agents tend to preserve the status quo, for their categories of perception and appreciation are but of a reflection of the social structures [16].…”

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Plastic Bags Ban and Social Marginalization: Evidence from Morocco

Mekaoui¹,

Benmouro²,

Mansour³

et al. 2021

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Biased socio-environmental policies often result in social resistance among the less well-off, hence hindering the effectiveness of such policies. The present research investigated the implications of the plastic bags ban in Morocco implemented in July 2016 and how it differentially impacted formal and informal sector workers including customers of informal economy markets. While formal markets succeeded in implementing the ban given the affordability of alternatives to plastic compared to their customers living standards, the informal markets vendors and customers not only could not afford these alternatives but also suffered from impoverishing effects of such policy as the findings of our research show. The paper concludes that the effectiveness of environmental policies relies heavily on their implementation within a wider framework addressing socio-economic inequalities and poverty among the informal sector workers especially in countries where the latter constitute a large proportion of the national economy.

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Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis

Bunn,

Fuller

2023

British Educational Res J

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In this paper, we explore the critical praxis approach of an equity initiative with students who have left care. We contend that ‘praxis’ (International Studies in Widening Participation, 2018, 5: 10–20) – understood here as the close, dialogic and iterative relationship between research and practice, can be a powerful tool for approaching ordinarily rigid equity categorisations as a means for interrogating their conceptual efficacy while simultaneously creating more exploratory approaches to equity populations and initiatives. We examine how unproblematised notions of care leavers migrate between fields and institutions, arguing for a more robust and rigorous interrogation of the salience of the concept of a care leaver as it is integrated into the field of higher education. We contend that rigid definitions of care that narrowly define people only through their relationship to formalised state‐legitimated forms of welfare intervention risk making ‘absent’ (Epistemologies of the south: Justice against Epistemicide, 2014; Routledge) the substantial population of people nearby this experience of care. This includes people who have escaped official definitions as policies change, circumstances that are similar or identical to people placed in care that have not been included in the official definition of care, or the overlapping and intersecting conditions of marginality that often shape the conditions for being removed into state care. Critical praxis is offered here as providing the basis for allowing the category of ‘care leaver’ or ‘care experienced’ to become an in‐road for expanding practice initiatives and research understandings to further dimensions of marginalisation and social vulnerability.

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An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology.

Cited by 166 publications

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Different while being similar: The dual institutional process and differential organizational status

Different while being similar: The dual institutional process and differential organizational status

Plastic Bags Ban and Social Marginalization: Evidence from Morocco

Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis

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