Reflexivity, Reality, and Relationality. The Inadequacy of Bourdieu’s Critique of the Phenomenological Tradition in Sociology

Endreß, Martin

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“…Although Endress (2005) It is therefore important not solely to view the students as independent knowing subjects or defined only by their structural context, but also to focus on the 'dialectic of the active perceiving subject and his experience of the objectiveness of social reality through intersubjective communication and understanding' (Smart 1976, 86). The works of phenomenological authors like Alfred Schutz and Peter Berger focus on the meaning individuals put on situations encountered in everyday life and the intersubjectively constituted objects that they produce via interactions.…”

Section: Agency and Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

What can research into graduate employability tell us about agency and structure?

Tholen

2013

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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Citation: Tholen, G. (2015). What can research into graduate employability tell us about agency and structure?. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36(5), pp. 766-784. doi: 10.1080Education, 36(5), pp. 766-784. doi: 10. /01425692.2013 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. What can research into graduate employability tell us about agency and structure? Permanent Gerbrand TholenTraditionally theorists who have written about agency and structure have eschewed empirical research. This article uses the findings of an empirical study into graduate employability to inform the sociological debate on how they relate to each other. The study examined how Dutch and British final-year students approach the labour market right before they graduate. The study revealed that the labour market and education structures are mirrored in how students understand and act within the labour market. It also showed that the interplay between agency and structure is mediated by an intersubjective framework shared by other students. The article argues that previous theoretical views on employability have failed to understand this and suggests how to improve our understanding of agency and structure.

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What can research into graduate employability tell us about agency and structure?

Tholen

2013

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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“…That is to say, the characterisation of approaches such as phenomenology as 'subjectivist' presupposes an underlying subjective-objective dualism, which phenomenology explicitly aims to overcome. We thus follow recent papers by Throop and Murphy (2002) and Endress (2005) who have defended phenomenology against the accusation (especially by Bourdieu) of subjectivism. Jean Lave's social practice theory and her study of shopper's decision-making during grocery shopping (e.g., Lave, 1988;Lave et al, 1984;Lave and Wenger, 1991) serves as our illustrative example of an integrationist approach, which draws explicitly on .…”

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Where do the limits of experience lie? Abandoning the dualism of objectivity and subjectivity

Greiffenhagen

Sharrock

2008

History of the Human Sciences

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Citation: Where do the limits of experience lie?Abandoning the dualism of objectivity and subjectivity AbstractThe relationship between 'subjective' and 'objective' features of social reality (and between 'subjectivist' and 'objectivist' sociological approaches) remains problematic within social thought. Phenomenology is often taken as a paradigmatic example of subjectivist sociology, since it supposedly places exclusive emphasis on actors' 'subjective' interpretations, thereby neglecting 'objective' social structures.In this article, we question whether phenomenology is usefully understood as falling on either side of the standard divides, arguing that phenomenology's conception of 'subjective' experience of social reality includes many features taken to be 'objective' elements of it. We illustrate our argument by a critical examination of Jean Lave's attempt to differentiate social practice theory from phenomenology. We show that many theoretical positions that want to overcome the subjective-objective dualism retain an objectivist conception of the 'subjective' features of social reality.

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“…Nonetheless, the consequence of this strategy is that not only way of presentation and description, but also all further interpretations are entrapped into phenomenological frames, which may prove too rigid or cramped (cf. Endress, 2005). The other problem consists in the orientation of Schützian phenomenology on every-day life, which is understood by him strictly in pragmatic terms (Schütz, Luckmann, 1973, pp.…”

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Beliefs in Manifestations of the Supernatural as an Element of Contemporary Religiosity

Królikowska

2016

Opuscula Sociologica

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Reflexivity, Reality, and Relationality. The Inadequacy of Bourdieu’s Critique of the Phenomenological Tradition in Sociology

Cited by 39 publications

References 6 publications

What can research into graduate employability tell us about agency and structure?

What can research into graduate employability tell us about agency and structure?

Where do the limits of experience lie? Abandoning the dualism of objectivity and subjectivity

Beliefs in Manifestations of the Supernatural as an Element of Contemporary Religiosity

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