To take some obvious examples, modern industrial technology derives from physical science, from techniques of mass production, from certain forms of social organization (e.g., capitalist or socialist), and from an ethos which declares that affluence is preferable to poverty and that man is privileged to modify nature to suit himself. Modern medical technology derives from physical and biologica...

The paper examines career choice at age 16 in Northern Ireland using micro data for young people completing compulsory education in 1993. Explanatory variables include resourcerelated school characteristics, ethos-related characteristics and peer-group factors. The results suggest resources, ethos and peer group effects all play a significant role in career choice at age 16. Some of these facto...

In this paper, we analyze working experiences of female sports journalists in the French-speaking Swiss daily press. We draw on Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and field to examine how structures of power shape these journalists’ lives. Based on 27 semistructured interviews and observations in the field, we found that women journalists’ work experiences depend on the relationship between their pos...