In this comment I review Goldthorpe’s recent portrayal of the substance ofBourdieu’s views on the issues of cultural capital, education and class reproduction, byfocusing on three major set of claims that Goldthorpe imputes to Bourdieu. Using morerecent and more representative examples of Bourdieu’s work on education and classreproduction, I show that Bourdieu did not hold the p...

Internet research (Jones, 1999) is recently concentrating the interest of many scholars not only because of the ubiquitousness of this new medium. Some, as Paccagnella (1997), hope that these studies could transcend the traditional quality/quantity divide in social research (cf., Miles & Huberman, 1994, pp. 40-43). In fact, the idea of an interpretive social science combined with statistical me...

This paper aims to explore the contradictions of CRM systems and their use in call centres and in doing so contribute to the literature on critical information systems research. By invoking a critical perspective our analysis shows significant contradictions between system objectives and outcomes in practice. With reference to the work of Pierre Bourdieu, a sociologist and critical social theor...

BOURDIEU’S CONSTRUCT OF HABITUS AND CRITIQUE The current sociological understanding of habitus expressed in the work of Pierre Bourdieu as its key academic construct emphasizes the importance of habits for human action. Bourdieu understands human behavior as fundamentally cultural; rejecting behaviorist view of cognition and action as related to a stimulus—response chains, the French sociologis...

In Photography: AMiddle-browArtVittTt Bourdieu, Robert Castel, Dominique Schnapper, Jean-Claude Chamboredon and Luc Boltanski situate the practice of photography within the larger social practices of collective identity formation. Although the tide of the book implies that the subject is "photography," it is made immediately clear that it is not about photographs. It is the social practice of "...