Pierre Bourdieu’s Concept of the Politics of Symbolization and Symbolic Interactionism

Hałas, Elżbieta

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“…Therefore, we must acknowledge practical accomplishments in fieldwork as being reliant on interacting physical bodies and symbolic body work (Coffey 1999, 59–75). If we substantiate symbolic interactionism with Bourdieu’s structuralist constructivism (Hałas 2004), then the impression management of the fieldworker must be viewed as enabled and/or constrained by the enactment and perception of their embodied expressive style (Hallett 2007, 153; Schwalbe and Shay 2014, 170–71).…”

Section: Incomplete or Vague Guidelines: Extra-methodologically Informentioning

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Ethnographic Gameness: Theorizing Extra-methodological Fieldwork Practices in a Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs

Schmid

2020

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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This article theorizes the fieldwork experiences that I gained while studying outlaw biker subculture. Drawing on Bourdieu’s practice theory and Goffman’s dramaturgical interactionism, I argue that ethnography in practice is pre-disposed by the ethnographer’s primary habitus, which shapes symbolic interaction. To substantiate this claim, I disclose my own upbringing in a troubled working-class family and my personal ties with outlaw bikers, both prior to and beyond my research. This article then illustrates how my habitus helped me to compensate for the vagueness of ethnography in theory with regard to three recurrent issues of fieldwork, which are the practices of (1) approaching/entering the field, (2) negotiating participation, and (3) managing (un)fortunate circumstances. After reflecting on my cleft habitus as the buddy and/or researcher in ethnographic practice, this article concludes with the metaphor of gameness. This concept, which is borrowed from early prize fighting, is used to outline and label the ideal-type of the ethnographer who is well-suited for the immersion into deviant, criminalized, or otherwise culturally elitist fields.

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Section: Incomplete or Vague Guidelines: Extra-methodologically Informentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnographic Gameness: Theorizing Extra-methodological Fieldwork Practices in a Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs

Schmid

2020

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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“…Det finns i dag olika uppfattningar om hur sociologi som vetenskap ska utvecklas, från en argumentation för en allt starkare renodling eller specificering av perspektiv till argumentation för integration mellan olika teorier och ansatser (Emirbayer & Maynard 2010;Halas 2004) . Integration -eller inlån -av teoretiska resonemang och begrepp kan vara fruktbart men förutsätter samtidigt en diskussion om grundläggande likheter och skillnader mellan perspektiven .…”

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Institutionen för samhällsstudier, Linnéuniversitetet respektive Institutionen för samhälls-och välfärdsstudier, Linköpings universitet Perspective on age in everyday interactionsThe aim of the article is to discuss how ethnomethodology and (symbolic) interactionism may contribute to sociological studies on age in everyday interactions . A theoretical framework on age, 'age-as-accomplished', inspired by ethnomethodology and symbolic interactionist approach has been proposed by Laz (1998;2003) . Our comparison of these approaches show, that the perspectives are incompatible, for example with regard to the definitions of culture, interaction and meaning . As such issues are not discussed by Laz, the theoretical framework is lacking in transparency and clarity . Ultimately the definition of 'age as accomplished' is not congruent with the notions of meaning and interpretation as used by Laz . In some respects the perspectives may though be complementary and valuable in age studies, for example the detailed study of situated norms in ethnomethodology, as well as some new developments within (symbolic) interactionist perspectives focusing on social status, and issues of subordination and superordination as relational processes .

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“…Even though the French scholars also tend to deal with representations as the genesis of the social structures of law, economy, and politics, they also, and sometimes predominantly, treat them as the result of those very same structures. And it is this element of determinism, or "structuralist constructivism" (Bourdieu, 1989: 14), which seems difficult to accept for social scientists with the ambition of preserving a place for the self, reflexivity, and free will in the symbolic construction of social life (Asimaki and Koustourakis, 2014;Hałas, 2004;Myles, 2010: Chapter 3).…”

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The ambivalent nature of biodiversity: Scientists' perspectives on the Norwegian Nature Index

Figari¹

2012

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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Fauconnet, 1903) -echoes in curious ways the current absence of influential sociological perspectives on human-nature relations.Representation is now a faded concept in sociology. It figures here and there, such as in Bourdieu's (1989) account of symbolic power, in Latour's (1993: 7) fierce rejection of the concept as depicting a collection of "minds-in-a-vat", or in cultural studies of representations as artifacts (see Calhoun, 1997). In any case, its meaning is often unclear or taken for granted, and its prominence is far from Durkheim's vision of collective representations as the essence of the sociological endeavor (Pickering, 2000: 2).This dissertation is an attempt to breathe new life into the concept of representation and to examine its suitability for studies of human-nature relations. To better understand ongoing knowledge conflicts and the role of social meaning in today's political battles over burning Amazonian forests, the devastating effects of petroleum extraction, melting poles, or the destruction of habitats of one million species (Tollefson, 2019), there is a need for clarification of what we mean by "knowledge conflicts." What is the "stuff" this knowledge is made of, and in what do these conflicts reside? Are they mere reflections of colliding material interests and struggles for control over natural resources, or does the study of representations of nature add something to the equation? If it does, how are culturally shared ideas related to social conflict? 101

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Pierre Bourdieu’s Concept of the Politics of Symbolization and Symbolic Interactionism

Cited by 13 publications

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Ethnographic Gameness: Theorizing Extra-methodological Fieldwork Practices in a Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs

Ethnographic Gameness: Theorizing Extra-methodological Fieldwork Practices in a Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs

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The ambivalent nature of biodiversity: Scientists' perspectives on the Norwegian Nature Index

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