Remapping the Portuguese social space: Towards a Bourdieusian class scheme

Class analysis is intimately linked to the very development and consolidation of Portuguese sociology after Carnation Revolution. Throughout last decades, different research programmes assessed nature extent class inequalities, drawing on Marxist, Weberian functionalist paradigms. After a highly productive intensely debated phase, syncretic compact approach prevailed. While this captures relevant features inequality, its current version overshadows critical aspects difference misrecognition in social space Portugal. From an occupational, qualifications income data, we first propose scheme fractions, which draws relational multidimensional originally proposed by Bourdieu recently taken up European sociology. Using multiple correspondence nationally representative datasets, demonstrate validity tool for studying linkages fields potential replication further statistical qualitative research.