Tilly and Bourdieu

Emirbayer, Mustafa

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“…In Bourdieu’s overall theory, the habitus intends to account for the way present actions depend on the reiteration of patterns over time , that is, the multiple occurrences of a set of circumstances where people acted in the same way. This is why some interpreters (see, e.g., Emirbayer 2010) have rightly pointed out that the habitus bespeaks Bourdieu’s obsession with history and temporality: “time, with its rhythm” (Bourdieu 1977:9), is the key to social agents’ doing what they do in the here and now. On this reading, the habitus is a structured structure of incorporated temporality that brings one’s inherited and acquired experience to bear on her present and future actions.…”

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“…Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of the habitus , which an interpreter has plausibly defined as his “signature theoretical concept” (Emirbayer 2010:41), is a highly debated intellectual tool. It emerged as “a creative blend of concepts” (Lizardo 2004:376) originating from the legacy of protostructural anthropology, post-Sausserian structural anthropology, phenomenology, and genetic structuralism (see, e.g., Bourdieu 1990a:12).…”

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TheHabitusand the Critique of the Present

Croce

2015

Sociological Theory

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I tackle some major criticisms addressed to Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of habitus by foregrounding its affinities with Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of rule-following. To this end, I first clarify the character of the habitus as a theoretical device, and then elucidate what features of Wittgenstein’s analysis Bourdieu found of interest from a methodological viewpoint. To vindicate this reading, I contend that Wittgenstein’s discussion of rule-following was meant to unearth the internal connection between rules and the performative activities whereby rules are brought into life. By portraying rules as tools that allow agents to stabilize and renegotiate practices, I illustrate the active role social agents play in the production of shared accounts of practices. I conclude by showing that, if viewed through this prism, the habitus proves to be meant to provide guidance on how social theory helps historicize and denaturalize the social world.

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TheHabitusand the Critique of the Present

Croce

2015

Sociological Theory

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“…Gross (2010), for example, has suggested that we understand mechanisms as practices, grounded in what Dewey calls "habits" and evolving according to the process of problem solving, experimentation, and habituation described in pragmatist theory. Likewise, Emirbayer (2010) has pointed out strong underlying similarities between Tilly's work and that of Bourdieu, with its focus on habitualized repertoires mobilized in strategic interactions, within a relationally (and categorically) structured field of action (Bourdieu 1977(Bourdieu , 1993.…”

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Formations and Formalisms: Charles Tilly and the Paradox of the Actor

Krinsky

Mische

2013

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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Charles Tilly was a pioneer in joining sociology and history. Throughout his career, he was especially concerned with the ways in which ordinary people made political claims, and how this was shaped by transformations in the state and in capitalism. Most often seen as a structuralist, Tilly was nevertheless deeply concerned with how to understand actors. This article traces Tilly's work from early research on French contention through his later, synthetic work on mechanisms and regimes to show how Tilly's understanding of actors, agency, culture, and social construction developed. Further, we show how this development went hand in hand with Tilly's development of distinctive methodological approaches to historical and sociological data.

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“…Answering such questions, requires a combination of interpretive and structural analysis, or what Emirbayer (1997Emirbayer ( , 2010) calls a 'relational' approach. A relational approach neither focuses on meaning as such, nor exclusively on structures, but on the relations between structures and social interaction.…”

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A relational perspective on deliberative systems: combining interpretive and structural analysis

Holdo

2018

Critical Policy Studies

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Deliberative systems theory suggests that a democratic society works well when citizens' experiences and views, as expressed in various forms and sites of communication, are connected and taken up by other citizens as well as policy-makers. Pluralism, which is not always easily reconciled with high-quality deliberation in every instance, is seen as instrumental to the realization of democratic values and sound decision-making. This perspective raises new methodological challenges, such as (1) identifying sites of communication that serve important functions in a deliberative system, (2) connecting different sites and (3) assessing their impact. Recent scholarship has found that these challenges can be fruitfully met by applying interpretive methodology, which, like deliberative systems theory, aims to understand social interactions on their own terms, and not by measuring their correspondence to theoretical ideal-types. However, for theory development, as well as to help improve actual deliberative systems, researchers also need to make generalizable inferences. This paper develops a relational approach that combines interpretive methods with structural theory, which allows researchers to assess and explain the deficiencies, as well as the opportunities, that citizens experience. The principles of relational analysis are illustrated by research on citizen deliberation about urban riots.

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Tilly and Bourdieu

Cited by 14 publications

References 35 publications

TheHabitusand the Critique of the Present

TheHabitusand the Critique of the Present

Formations and Formalisms: Charles Tilly and the Paradox of the Actor

A relational perspective on deliberative systems: combining interpretive and structural analysis

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