Bourdieu, Habitus and Social Research The Art of Application

This collection brings together for the first time a set of researchers whose research methodologies centre on Bourdieu's concept of habitus. Full of insight and innovation, the book is an essential read for anyone wanting to know more about approaches to social theory and its application in research. One of its core objectives is to assist social researchers in their capacity to harness the potential of habitus as a methodological tool, thereby helping to bridge the often troublesome dichotomy between theory and method in the social sciences. It also provides a useful and practical resource on how effectively to apply the concept of habitus to scholarship/research, and can easily be used as a reference book in postgraduate programmes.

Cristina Costa is a Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning in the School of Education, Univesity of Strathclyde, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the intersection of education and the participatory web through a sociological lens. She is also interested in broader issues regarding the participatory web in the context of a changing society.
 
Mark Murphy is Reader in Education and Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. His publications include Social theory and education research (Routledge, 2013) and Habermas, critical theory and education (with T. Fleming) (Routledge, 2013). He is the creator of www.socialtheoryapplied.com, a website designed to provide a platform for discussion around social theory and its applications.

PART 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO BOURDIEUIAN HABITUS
1.Bourdieu and the Application of Habitus across the Social Sciences; Cristina Costa; Mark Murphy
PART 2: HABITUS, TRANSITIONS AND TRAJECTORIES
2.Egalitarian Habitus: Narratives of Reconstruction in Discourses of Aspiration and Change; Garth Stahl
3.From Parental to Adolescents' Habitus: Challenges and Insights of Quantifying Bourdieu; Katerina Bodovski
4.Habitus and Graduate Employment: a Re/Structuring Structure and the Role of Biographical Research ; Ciaran Burke
5.Theorising and Researching the Youth Crime Nexus: Habitus, Reflexivity and the Political Ecology of Social Practices; Alan France
PART 3: HABITUS TRANSFORMED: THE EFFECTS OF MOBILITY
6.Habitus - its Transformation and Transfer through Cultural Encounters in Migration; Magdalena Nowicka
7.Learning to Fly: Entering The Youth Mobility and Habitus in Ireland and Portugal; David Cairns
8.Moving to the City: Educational Trajectories of Rural Chinese Students in an Elite University; He Li
PART 4: ONLINE HABITUS
9.Academics Online: Fighting for a New Habitus; Cristina Costa
10. Young People and the Web: Understanding their Engagement with Online Information through the Concept of Habitus; Huw Davies