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      Prosopography, Networks, Life Course Sequences, and so on. Quantifying with or beyond Bourdieu?

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          This article focuses on the importance of quantifying Bourdieu’s “research programme”, linked with the concepts of field, habitus, and capital. It presents possible ways of doing statistics within this framework and argues that continuous methodological development should be pursued. To support this argument, the article highlights the methodology and empirical results of a doctoral dissertation on the Swiss field of economic sciences. It stresses the relevance of using a prosopographical strategy and advocates further development of multiple correspondence analysis, and the use of sequence analysis and social network analysis. The main contributions of these methods concern the investigation of subgroup profiles in fields, the trajectories of accumulation and conversion of capitals and the structure of social capital. When asking whether or not we should think with or beyond Bourdieu when suggesting new methodological developments to his programme, this article argues that we ought to think beyond his strict written work, but still within his theoretical framework, which proves particularly relevant to the study of power relations among individuals.

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                Journal
                Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique
                Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique
                SAGE Publications
                0759-1063
                2070-2779
                October 2019
                November 05 2019
                October 2019
                : 144
                : 1
                : 6-39
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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                10.1177/0759106319880148
                d5eb5028-aacc-4f45-b48d-0e80fd302788
                © 2019

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