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2. Care leavers' journeys into university: A narrative study examined through a Bourdieusian lens.
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SHOTTON, Lynette Harland
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HIGHER education ,STUDENT aspirations ,SCHOOLS ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,RESEARCH - Abstract
This paper reports the findings of a narrative study exploring the journeys of nine care leavers into university, answering the research question: How do care leavers explain their journeys into university? Care leavers are one of the least represented groups in the university setting. Therefore, examining the journeys of those who do enter the university field is important for understanding how to help raise aspirations and support other care leavers to follow. Recruitment to the study took place across all five universities in the Northeast of England, with nine students from three of these institutions taking part. Individual face to face and telephone interviews were conducted to capture the narratives and these were examined through a Bourdieusian lens, drawing on Bourdieu's theory of practice, using an experience centred thematic approach. The findings underline the dominant view that university education is culturally desirable and valuable, but also serve to highlight the diversity and complexity of the aspirations and experiences of care leavers' journeys into university. This research study contributes to the developing evidence base concerned with the educational experiences and trajectories of care leavers, highlighting the need for further research and review of both policy and practice in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Alcohol consumption among UK football supporters: investigating the contested field of the football carnivalesque.
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Bandura, Comille Tapiwa, Giulianotti, Richard, Martin, Jack G., Bancroft, Angus, Morrow, Stephen, Hunt, Kate, and Purves, Richard I.
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SOCIAL capital , *SOCCER , *FOCUS groups , *CULTURE , *INTERVIEWING , *STATISTICAL sampling , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *LEISURE , *RESEARCH , *MATHEMATICAL models , *RESEARCH methodology , *SOCIAL skills , *ALCOHOL drinking , *SOCIOLOGY , *THEORY , *STAKEHOLDER analysis - Abstract
This paper investigates alcohol consumption within cultures of football fandom through the innovative combination of theories of the carnivalesque and Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field, and capital. Focus groups (n = 79) were conducted with football supporters in England and Scotland. Semi-structured interviews (n = 15) were also conducted with key organizational stakeholders. Research explored the importance and role of alcohol consumption for supporters when watching or attending matches.. Participants confirmed the cultural significance, perceived normalcy and historical links between football and alcohol consumption. Supporters highlighted the importance of the sociability, friendship, and social capital aspects of alcohol consumption. Participants believed football supporters are perceived differently in comparison with supporters of other sports, arguing that legislation surrounding alcohol consumption at other sports allowed supporters to enhance the carnivalesque by drinking alcohol, whereas football fans were more restricted. Participants agreed the habitus of excessive drinking and violence associated with football supporters led to a bad reputation, however, this view was outdated. Participants also recognized a growing drug culture in football. The findings draw attention to the alcohol-sport relationship and the contested relations, and diverging interests and influences, within the social field of football. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Becoming a researcher: forms of capital associated with “research capacity” trajectories of young British social anthropologists.
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Holligan, Chris
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ETHNOLOGISTS ,EDUCATION research ,EXPERTISE ,PERFORMANCE evaluation ,SYMBOLIC capital ,YOUNG adults - Abstract
The paper privileges thevoicesof British social anthropologists examining their perceptions of how their research expertise was acquired. Reference is made to the case of education research in Britain, which, by comparison with social anthropology, reveals limited capacity as measured through performance audits of scientific research quality. The paper endeavours to facilitateknowledge transferby uncovering and theoretically classifying the origins of research capacity. Life history interviews provide the data which illuminate the grounded nature of symbolic capital. The intellectual formation of the sample is characterised through Pierre Bourdieu’s theorisation of symbolic capital. The results indicate that research capacity can be characterised in terms of a transmission of symbolic capital, including that gained in the field through institutional affiliations whose reputational assets enhance the power of academics to play the game. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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5. Pierre Bourdieu: Expanding the scope of nursing research and practice.
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Nairn, Stuart and Pinnock, David
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CELEBRITIES ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,ECONOMICS ,PHILOSOPHY of nursing ,NURSING practice ,NURSING research ,PHILOSOPHY ,PRACTICAL politics ,REFLECTION (Philosophy) ,SOCIOLOGY ,LABELING theory - Abstract
Bourdieu is an important thinker within the sociological tradition and has a philosophically sophisticated approach to theoretical knowledge and research practice. In this paper, we examine the implication of his work for nursing and the health sciences more broadly. We argue that his work is best described as a reflexive realist who provides a space for a nonpositivist approach to knowledge that does not fall into the trap of idealism or relativism. We emphasize that Bourdieu was not an abstract theorist, but only utilized theories to understand and explain the social world in all its empirical complexity. Theory is emphasized over method without denying the importance of method. We then provide a brief overview of some of his key concepts: habitus, field and capital. His work is a scientifically astute practice that has an emancipatory purpose, with particular resonance to the problems of nursing as a social practice. Some have criticized Bourdieu for undermining agency and we briefly address this issue, but argue that his conceptual framework helps us to understand what endures in social practice and why change is often problematic. In short, this paper argues that Bourdieu's work is a fruitful resource for critiquing existing nursing approaches that are preoccupied with agency over structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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6. Key trends in interprofessional research: A macrosociological analysis from 1970 to 2010.
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Paradis, Elise and Reeves, Scott
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CONCEPTUAL structures ,INTERDISCIPLINARY research ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,STATISTICS ,DATA analysis ,QUANTITATIVE research ,THEMATIC analysis ,DATA analysis software ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
The field of interprofessional research has grown both in size and in importance since the 1970s. In this paper, we use a macrosociological approach and a Bourdieusian theoretical framework to investigate this growth and the changing nature of the field's research. We investigate publication trends at the aggregate (field) level, using an original dataset of 100 488 interprofessional-related articles published between 1970 and 2010 and recorded in the PubMed database. Articles were coded using a list of 638 codes that were then analyzed thematically and longitudinally. Our results are presented in two main sections. Initially, we consider the growth and reach of the interprofessional field. Second, we explore the five different trends ('terminological issues', 'rising management rhetoric', 'expansion of psychometrics', 'shift from individualism to collectivism' and 'emerging issues') that emerged out of our thematic analysis of publications over time. These findings are discussed in the light of Bourdieu's framework to provide an indication of what we argue is a growing legitimacy of the field of interprofessional research as a scholarly domain in its own right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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7. Reflexivity and the research interview.
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Slembrouck, Stef
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RESEARCH ,ETHNOLOGY ,DISCOURSE analysis ,HISTORY ,SOCIAL theory ,MODERNITY - Abstract
This paper engages with "researcher reflexivity" in terms of a set of discourse analytical imperatives which derive from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and as a set of epistemological implications which follow from my ethnographic-interventionist engagement with a specific field of (institutionalized) practice (broadly, child protection in Flanders). The focus of the paper is on a reflexive discourse analysis of two data events (qualitative interviews with a lone parent who had/has an adolescent in public care). My key claim is that a reflexive discourse analysis which succeeds in revealing the role of social class as an interpretative filter on data events and their histories, can result in a deepened research design which also sets a specific agenda for relevant social-theoretical understandings of Late Modernity (I engage with Bourdieu, Bernstein and Giddens). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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8. Bourdieu and higher education research: a bricolage approach.
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Morrison, Andrew
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HIGHER education research ,VOCATIONAL school students ,EMPLOYMENT of college graduates ,DECISION making ,EQUALITY - Abstract
I argue for the continuing relevance of the Bourdieusian theoretical schema to research related to higher education. The paper discusses my use of Bourdieu in two research projects: an examination of the educational and occupational decision-making of final-year vocational A-level students; an analysis of the perceptions of final-year undergraduates regarding possible barriers to obtaining employment within primary teaching in the UK. Both investigations offered evidence of classed inequalities which shaped the 'horizons for action' of the student samples. I argue that Bourdieu offers a means of making visible such inequalities although his concepts may sometimes be employed to best effect in concert with other theoretical resources. In the paper, I provide examples where I have taken this approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
9. Theory, evaluation, and practice in widening participation: A framework approach to assessing impact.
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Hayton, Annette and Bengry-Howell, Andrew
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ENGLISH language education in universities & colleges ,ENGLISH literature education in universities & colleges ,STUDENT attitudes ,EDUCATIONAL programs ,EDUCATIONAL evaluation ,YOUNG adults ,HIGHER education - Abstract
The English higher education (HE) system is deeply stratified, with younger students from more privileged backgrounds comprising the majority of the student population. Over the last 15 years considerable investment has been made to widen participation but attempts to evaluate these initiatives and demonstrate impact have presented a major challenge for the HE sector. This paper explores the development and application of a framework for evaluating and researching university-led interventions. Drawing largely on the theoretical work of Bourdieu it provides a basis for designing and evaluating programmes and activities to develop student cultural capital and habitus, and foster agency and a sense of belonging in HE settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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10. Modernism, reflexivity and the Washington Consensus.
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Gay, Daniel
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POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy) ,ECONOMIC policy ,TAXONOMY ,SOCIAL norms ,RESEARCH - Abstract
This paper develops a taxonomy of reflexive development practice, suggesting an examination of external values and norms; an assessment of the importance of local context; a recognition that policies can worsen the problems that they try to solve; and the idea that theory and policy should be revised as circumstances change. The taxonomy is developed as a way of addressing the difficulties encountered by the modernist Washington Consensus on the one hand and postmodernism on the other. The discussion draws on the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who tries to move the debate further using the concept of reflexivity, combining the objectivism of the outsider with the attention to context of the locally embedded researcher. JEL Classifications: O10, B41 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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11. How will e-cigarettes affect health inequalities? Applying Bourdieu to smoking and cessation.
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Thirlway, Frances
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ELECTRONIC cigarettes , *SMOKING cessation , *SOCIAL problems , *HEDONISM , *HABITUS (Sociology) , *COMPARATIVE studies , *RESEARCH methodology , *MEDICAL cooperation , *RESEARCH , *RESEARCH funding , *SOCIAL classes , *SOCIAL stigma , *EVALUATION research , *HEALTH equity - Abstract
This paper uses the work of Bourdieu to theorise smoking and cessation through a class lens, showing that the struggle for distinction created the social gradient in smoking, with smoking stigma operating as a proxy for class stigma. This led to increased policy focus on the health of bystanders and children and later also to concerns about electronic cigarettes. Bourdieu's concept of habitus is deployed to argue that the e-cigarette helps middle-class smokers resolve smoking as a symptom of cleft habitus associated with social mobility or particular subcultures. E-cigarette use is also compatible with family responsibility and sociable hedonism; aspects of working-class habitus which map to the 'practical family quitter' and the 'recreational user' respectively. The effectiveness of class stigma in changing health behaviours is contested, as is the usefulness of youth as a category of analysis and hence the relevance of concerns about young people's e-cigarette use outside a class framework of smoking and cessation. With regard to health inequalities, whilst middle-class smokers have in class disgust a stronger incentive to quit than working-class smokers, there is potential for tobacco control to tap into a working-class ethos of family care and responsibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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12. Binary blues: Exploring beyond dichotomized gender comparisons with a theory-driven approach.
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Pritlove, Cheryl, Angus, Jan E, Dale, Craig, Seto Nielsen, Lisa, and Kramer, Marnie
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RESEARCH ,BINARY gender system ,MATHEMATICAL models ,CARDIOVASCULAR diseases ,INTERVIEWING ,GENDER identity ,TYPE 2 diabetes ,SEX discrimination ,THEORY ,RESEARCH funding ,CARDIAC rehabilitation - Abstract
The call to move beyond binary conceptualizations of gender is not new, and yet, this categorical and contrastive approach to gender analysis remains common, particularly in health sciences. It has been posited that the problem of gender dualism rests partially in the minimal interplay between theory and method. Drawing on our experiences during a qualitative study of men's and women's involvement in cardiac rehabilitation, this article provides an account of the analytic and reflexive challenges of conducting research on gender and health and explores how the careful use of theory, specifically Bourdieu's theory of practice, can facilitate a departure from narrow gender binaries. The analysis presented in this article adds to methodological writings on gender and health, offering a theory-driven process to help researchers address the fluidity of gender as lived and negotiated in the everyday social and material circumstances of men and women, particularly during times of illness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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13. Disciplinarity and sport science in Europe: A statistical and sociological study of ECSS conference abstracts.
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Champely, Stéphane, Fargier, Patrick, and Camy, Jean
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ABSTRACTING ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,INTERDISCIPLINARY research ,LONGITUDINAL method ,RESEARCH ,SPORTS sciences - Abstract
Abstracts of European College of Sports Science conferences (1995–2014) are studied. The number of abstracts has been increasing regularly (+90 per year). This rise is in recent years largely due to extra-European countries. The magnitude and accumulation of the different topics of discussion are examined. An operational criterion determines four stages of evolution of a topic: social network, cluster, specialty, and discipline. The scientific production can, therefore, be classified as disciplinary or non-disciplinary. The disciplinary part is more important but has been less dynamic recently. The cognitive content of sport science is then explored through a multidimensional scaling of the topics based on the keywords used in the abstracts. Three areas are visible: social sciences and humanities, sports medicine and physiology, and biomechanics and neurophysiology. According to the field theory of Bourdieu (1975), three scientific habitus are distinguished. The logic of academic disciplinary excellence is the consequence of the autonomy of this scientific field, its closure, peer-review process, and barriers to entry. The distribution of scientific capital and professional capital is unequal across the three areas. Basically, conservation strategies of academic disciplinary excellence are predicted in biomechanics and neurophysiology, subversion strategies of interdisciplinarity based on professional concerns can appear in the sports medicine and physiology area, and critical strategies of interdisciplinarity based on social utility in social sciences and humanities. Moreover, additional tensions within these areas are depicted. Lastly methods based on co-citations of disciplines and boundary objects are proposed to find tangible patterns of multidisciplinarity confirming these strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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14. "The way the country has been carved up by researchers": ethics and power in north--south public health research.
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Walsh, Aisling, Brugha, Ruairi, and Byrne, Elaine
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DEVELOPING countries ,EDUCATION ,ETHICS ,INCOME ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,INTERVIEWING ,PRACTICAL politics ,PUBLIC health ,RESEARCH ,RESEARCH funding ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,QUALITATIVE research ,STATISTICAL power analysis ,ACQUISITION of data ,DATA analysis software - Abstract
Background: Despite the recognition of power as being central to health research collaborations between high income countries and low and middle income countries, there has been insufficient detailed analysis of power within these partnerships. The politics of research in the global south is often considered outside of the remit of research ethics. This article reports on an analysis of power in north--south public health research, using Zambia as a case study. Methods: Primary data were collected in 2011/2012, through 53 in-depth interviews with: Zambian researchers (n= 20), Zambian national stakeholders (n= 8) and northern researchers who had been involved in public health research collaborations involving Zambia and the global north (n= 25). Thematic analysis, utilising a situated ethics perspective, was undertaken using Nvivo 10. Results: Most interviewees perceived roles and relationships to be inequitable with power remaining with the north. Concepts from Bourdieu's theory of Power and Practice highlight new aspects of research ethics: * Northern and southern researchers perceive that different habituses exist, north and south - habituses of domination (northern) and subordination (Zambian) in relation to researcher relationships. * Bourdieu's hysteresis effect provides a possible explanation for why power differentials continue to exist. In some cases, new opportunities have arisen for Zambian researchers; however, they may not immediately recognise and grasp them. * Bourdieu's concept of Capitals offers an explanation of how diverse resources are used to explain these power imbalances, where northern researchers are often in possession of more economic, symbolic and social capital; while Zambian researchers possess more cultural capital. Conclusions: Inequities and power imbalances need to be recognised and addressed in research partnerships. A situated ethics approach is central in understanding this relationship in north--south public health research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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15. Interdisciplinary promises versus practices in medicine: The decoupled experiences of social sciences and humanities scholars.
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Albert, Mathieu, Paradis, Elise, and Kuper, Ayelet
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EVALUATION of medical education , *ALLIED health personnel , *CONTENT analysis , *INTERPROFESSIONAL relations , *INTERVIEWING , *RESEARCH methodology , *STATISTICAL sampling , *STUDENTS , *JUDGMENT sampling - Abstract
This paper explores social scientists' and humanities (SSH) scholars' integration within the academic medical research environment. Three questions guided our investigation: Do SSH scholars adapt to the medical research environment? How do they navigate their career within a culture that may be inconsistent with their own? What strategies do they use to gain legitimacy? The study builds on three concepts: decoupling, doxa, and epistemic habitus. Twenty-nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with SSH scholars working in 11 faculties of medicine across Canada. Participants were selected through purposeful and snowball sampling. The data were analyzed by thematic content analysis. For most of our participants, moving into medicine has been a challenging experience, as their research practices and views of academic excellence collided with those of medicine. In order to achieve some level of legitimacy more than half of our participants altered their research practices. This resulted in a dissonance between their internalized appreciation of academic excellence and their new, altered, research practices. Only six participants experienced no form of challenge or dissonance after moving into medicine, while three decided to break with their social science and humanities past and make the medical research community their new home. We conclude that the work environment for SSH scholars in faculties of medicine does not deliver on the promise of inclusiveness made by calls for interdisciplinarity in Canadian health research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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16. 'The desire for a harmonious interaction': A qualitative study of how healthcare professionals in community‐based dementia teams perceive their role in reaching and supporting family caregivers from minority ethnic backgrounds.
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Gulestø, Ragnhild, Halvorsrud, Liv, Bjørge, Heidi, and Lillekroken, Daniela
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OCCUPATIONAL roles ,SERVICES for caregivers ,COGNITION disorders ,RESEARCH ,MINORITIES ,HEALTH services accessibility ,ATTITUDES of medical personnel ,RESEARCH methodology ,FAMILIES ,INTERVIEWING ,QUALITATIVE research ,DEMENTIA ,ETHNIC groups ,THEMATIC analysis - Abstract
Aims and objectives: To explore how healthcare professionals in community‐based dementia teams perceive their role in reaching and supporting family caregivers from minority ethnic backgrounds when caring for a family member suffering from dementia or cognitive impairment. Background: Despite increased focus on barriers to accessing the dementia healthcare service for family caregivers from minority ethnic backgrounds, the lack of knowledge on how to address these barriers in order to reach and support this group is evident. Design: The study has a qualitative, explorative design. The principles of consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) were applied for reporting methods and findings. Methods: Based on data from semi‐structured interviews (n = 9) conducted in two large Norwegian municipalities, a thematic analysis influenced by Braun and Clarke was used. The analytical findings draw on Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical concepts of field, habitus and capital. Findings: 'The desire for a harmonious interaction' was identified as an overarching theme. However, while desirable, the analysis shows that healthcare professionals in community‐based dementia teams do not always succeed in reaching and supporting family caregivers from minority ethnic backgrounds. The study reveals that the dementia healthcare service is a complex, normative and sometimes rigid system that requires a number of distinct attributes to navigate. Conclusions: The different social structures within the dementia healthcare service can both create and retain barriers that prevent family caregivers from minority ethnic backgrounds from receiving support on their own terms. Relevance to clinical practice: A practical implication of allowing critical reflection on the dementia healthcare service is that it provides opportunities for discussion. Healthcare professionals in community‐based dementia teams need to reflect on how normative ideals and 'taken‐for‐granted' mindsets can affect their ability to reach and support family caregivers from minority ethnic backgrounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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17. Key considerations for the success of Medical Education Research and Innovation units in Canada: unit director perceptions.
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Varpio, Lara, Bidlake, Erin, Humphrey-Murto, Sue, Sutherland, Stephanie, and Hamstra, Stanley
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MEDICAL education ,MEDICAL research ,MEDICAL research -- Social aspects ,HIGHER education - Abstract
Growth in the field of medical education is evidenced by the proliferation of units dedicated to advancing Medical Education Research and Innovation (MERI). While a review of the literature discovered narrative accounts of MERI unit development, we found no systematic examinations of the dimensions of and structures that facilitate the success of these units. We conducted qualitative interviews with the directors of 12 MERI units across Canada. Data were analyzed using qualitative description (Sandelowski in Res Nurs Health 23:334-340, ). Final analysis drew on Bourdieu's (Outline of a theory of practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ; Media, culture and society: a critical reader. Sage, London, ; Language and symbolic power. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, ) concepts of field, habitus, and capital, and more recent research investigating the field of MERI (Albert in Acad Med 79:948-954, ; Albert et al. in Adv Health Sci Educ 12:103-115, ). When asked about the metrics by which they define their success, directors cited: teaching, faculty mentoring, building collaborations, delivering conference presentations, winning grant funding, and disseminating publications. Analyzed using Bourdieu's concepts, these metrics are discussed as forms of capital that have been legitimized in the MERI field. All directors, with the exception of one, described success as being comprised of elements ( capital) at both ends of the service-research spectrum (i.e., Albert's PP-PU structure). Our analysis highlights the forms of habitus (i.e., behaviors, attitudes, demeanors) directors use to negotiate, strategize and position the unit within their local context. These findings may assist institutions in developing a new-or reorganizing an existing-MERI unit. We posit that a better understanding of these complex social structures can help units become savvy participants in the MERI field. With such insight, units can improve their academic output and their status in the MERI context-locally, nationally, and internationally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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18. Mothering children who have disabilities: a Bourdieusian interpretation of maternal practices
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McKeever, Patricia and Miller, Karen-Lee
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RESEARCH , *MOTHERS , *CHRONIC diseases , *PEOPLE with disabilities , *PATHOLOGICAL psychology , *PEDIATRICS , *CHILDREN with disabilities , *CHILD rearing , *QUALITATIVE research - Abstract
In the last three decades, mothers of children who have chronic illnesses or disabilities have been studied extensively. With some notable exceptions, most research has overlooked the socio-political context of disability and has interpreted maternal behaviours and feelings in negative or psychopathological terms. In this paper we report the results of using Pierre Bourdieu''s central concepts to reanalyse three independent qualitative studies focused on mothers’ accounts of raising children with severe disabling conditions. We illustrate the logic of mothers’ practices and conclude that they represent strategic manipulations of accessible bodily, cultural and symbolic capital consistent with the ‘rules of the game’ across multiple fields. Mothers struggled to establish and maintain the personhood and value of their children, and to obtain resources within a broader context of body normativeness, exclusion and inequity. This Bourdieusian rendering of the logic of maternal practices has important implications for research and paediatric practices. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2004
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19. Bourdieu and programming classes for the disadvantaged: a review of current practice as reported online—implications for non-formal coding classes in Bali
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Gusti Agung Ayu Mas Pramitasari and Laurence Tamatea
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Social Psychology ,Education ,Creative industries ,Social reproduction ,Bali ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,050602 political science & public administration ,Media Technology ,Sociology ,Disadvantage ,Poverty ,Curriculum ,lcsh:T58.5-58.64 ,Coding ,lcsh:Information technology ,business.industry ,Research ,Bourdieu ,05 social sciences ,Software development ,050301 education ,Public relations ,0506 political science ,Disadvantaged ,Baudrillard ,Indonesia ,Information and Communications Technology ,Programming ,business ,0503 education - Abstract
The software development sector is rapidly expanding. It generates vast revenues whether categorised under ICT or creative industries. It has a capacity to support national economic growth and is supportive of economic development. Despite such opportunity, the poor and disadvantaged are often excluded from access to and participation in this sector. In light of this context, our paper comprises a first step in a project aiming to offer software development classes to disadvantaged youth in Bali, Indonesia. To guide construction of the curriculum, we review publically available online literature around current practice in the provision of non-formal education-based programming classes to the disadvantaged. We wanted to know what might constrain disadvantaged students from participation in this field, what as a consequence might be their response to educational opportunities for this field, and what might be needed to provide ‘agentic’ learning experiences. We also wanted to evaluate the suitability of Bourdieu’s Social Reproduction Theory in terms of reading this literature and providing a broad level framing to guide initial thinking about curriculum construction in response to these questions. This paper presents findings from our review of the online publically available literature and argues the value of Social Reproduction Theory to understanding current practice and guiding preliminary thinking around curriculum construction.
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- 2018
20. An investigation into Chinese university-based EFL scholars' perceptions of quality of research
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Xie, Jianmei, Postlethwaite, Keith, and Robinson, Wendy
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428.2 ,perceptions of research quality ,Chinese scholars ,EFL ,Bourdieu ,phenomenology ,research ,educational research ,higher education institutes - Abstract
This empirical study explores Chinese scholars’ conceptions of the characteristics of quality in research. It follows a phenomenology approach and uses four mixed qualitative methods (online survey, interview, focus groups and document analysis). Phenomenological coding strategies and Pierre Bourdieu’s field and cultural theory are utilised to analyse the data and achieve a theoretical understanding of the findings. It is found that the participants viewed quality via multifarious lenses and identified diverse actual criteria. They nominated many ‘normal’ criteria that were similar to the western standards of research quality, especially the methodological ones, and some ‘abnormal’ ones which were indigenous and contextual in nature (i.e., related to the particular context of educational research in China). The participants elaborated their criteria through 3 layers: methodology (technical quality criteria), contextualisation (i.e., criteria that were about the relationship between the research and the context), and criteria related to the impact of research. The contextual issues (e.g., job title evaluation system, research policy and administrative interference) generated “unscholarly” criteria, and hindered the academics’ good intention to consider and follow the conventional criteria in action. They influenced the academics’ opinions of quality and their ways of conducting research. In the participants’ eyes, doing research in China was tantamount to writing papers, and it was not about assuring quality but reflected the academics’ struggles to meet all sorts of requests at institutional and national levels. The participants looked for an impact of research at the practical level (e.g., teaching and learning), and suggested a combination of both theoretical and practical significance of research. Powerful academics have not created cultural and scholarly debates to consider and select the criteria nominated by other academics, and have not used them in the government and institutional documents. In Bourdieusian terms, quality as reflected in some aspects of the habitus of participants has been greatly influenced by the field, the capital and the symbolic power; but the habitus of most scholars has not yet managed to affect the field. There is much in the field that could be altered to enable the habitus to affect and develop the quality of educational research. This current study provides recommendations for educational research, university-teachers’ research and practice, researcher development, as well as research policy and management in the Chinese context, and/or abroad.
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- 2013
21. Relatives' strategies in subacute brain injury rehabilitation: The warrior, the observer and the hesitant.
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Guldager, Rikke, Willis, Karen, Larsen, Kristian, and Poulsen, Ingrid
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ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,CONTENT analysis ,DECISION making ,HEALTH care teams ,INTERVIEWING ,LONGITUDINAL method ,SERVICES for caregivers ,RESEARCH methodology ,PATIENT-family relations ,MEDICAL needs assessment ,PARTICIPANT observation ,RESEARCH ,RESEARCH funding ,THERAPEUTICS ,QUALITATIVE research ,EMPIRICAL research ,LABELING theory ,SOCIAL support ,CAREGIVER attitudes ,REHABILITATION for brain injury patients ,DATA analysis software ,FAMILY attitudes ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,ATTITUDES toward illness - Abstract
Background: Relative involvement is crucial in rehabilitation when patients are incapable of being involved due to cognitive and functional dysfunction. However, studies have shown that this is complex because of differing understandings of the meaning of involvement as well as diverse needs to be involved. Aims and objectives: To explore the experience of the rehabilitation process from the perspectives of relatives of patients with a traumatic brain injury. The aim of the study was, through a theoretical‐empirical analysis, to identify relatives' strategies and practices in the rehabilitation process as evidenced in meetings with providers. Design: A longitudinal study with a qualitative approach, drawing on the theory of Pierre Bourdieu. Methods: Data were generated using participant observation and semi‐structured interviews. Participants were eleven relatives of patients with a severe traumatic brain injury, followed through in‐patient rehabilitation varying from 9–12 weeks. Analysis was undertaken using both an inductive and deductive approach. Findings: Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of strategy, three relative positions were identified, the warrior, the observer and the hesitant. These positions illustrate how different relative positions and their related dispositions influence the strategies used by relatives of patients with a severe traumatic brain injury evidenced in how they act, participate and relate to both the patient and the providers during the course of rehabilitation. Conclusions: Acknowledging the relatives' positions during the rehabilitation process enables better understanding and support of the relatives in the rehabilitation process to meet their (and thus the patients') diverse needs. Relevance to clinical practice: The findings have practical implications in informing how clinicians meet, interact, communicate and involve relatives of adult patients' with traumatic brain injury in decision‐making during rehabilitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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22. Theory, evaluation, and practice in widening participation: A framework approach to assessing impact
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WIDENING PARTICIPATION ,EVALUATION ,RESEARCH ,IMPACT ,REFLEXIVITY ,BOURDIEU ,Education - Abstract
The English higher education (HE) system is deeply stratified, with younger students from more privileged backgrounds comprising the majority of the student population. Over the last 15 years considerable investment has been made to widen participation but attempts to evaluate these initiatives and demonstrate impact have presented a major challenge for the HE sector. This paper explores the development and application of a framework for evaluating and researching university-led interventions. Drawing largely on the theoretical work of Bourdieu it provides a basis for designing and evaluating programmes and activities to develop student cultural capital and habitus, and foster agency and a sense of belonging in HE settings.
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- 2016
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23. Embodying pre-tense conditions for research among teacher educators in the Australian university sector: a Bourdieusian analysis of ethico-emotive suffering.
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Zipin, Lew and Nuttall, Joce
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TEACHER educators ,COLLEGE teachers ,PROFESSIONAL employees ,SCHADENFREUDE ,MASOCHISM - Abstract
Interviews conducted as part of the Work of Teacher Education (WoTE) project in Australia highlight emotional and ethical suffering embodied by teacher educators who find their research aspirations thwarted in the context of high-stakes research assessment exercises. We argue that government-run assessments, such as Excellence in Research for Australia, and localised institutional strategies developed in response, provoke “pre-tense” conditions that unsettle institutions of the Australian university sector regarding future claims for research status. Drawing on interviews with an early- and a mid-career teacher educator, both of whom evidence significant research aspirations, we portray and analyse their ethico-emotive sufferings, linked to contemporary pre-tense conditions in which they work, which thwart their dispositions to do research. We conclude by reflecting on the need for systemic response within the field of teacher education to ensure its research future, including an ethico-emotive politics that mobilises across generations of academics, with particular responsibilities for senior researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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24. Putting Emotion and Reflexivity to Work in Researching Migration.
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Gray, Breda
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REFLEXIVITY ,SOCIOLOGICAL research methods ,FEMINIST theory ,SOCIOLOGY of emotions ,SOCIAL bonds ,INTERNAL migrants ,IDENTIFICATION (Psychology) ,SOCIOLOGY of knowledge - Abstract
Recent debates within sociology and feminist theory have identified a need for reflexive research and noted the importance of emotion in the researcher's relationship to the object of research and the research process.This article contributes to these debates by arguing that emotionally mediated apprehensions of the object of study and the practice of critical reflexivity in sociological research cannot be separated. This is because emotional identifications and attachments are central to the (re)framing of the object of study and the politics of knowledge production. Thus, attempts to find more reliable grounds for knowledge claims must be located in the interrelated landscapes of feeling, intellect and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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