Quantifying Theory: Pierre Bourdieu

Karen Robson is an assistant professor of Sociology at York University, as well as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Geary Institute at University College Dublin (Ireland) and an Associate at the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning at the Institute of Education in London (UK). She has recently co-authored a research methods text book with Lawrence Neuman entitled Basics of Social Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. In addition to teaching methods at the graduate and undergraduate level, as well as specialized courses in the statistical software package Stata, she has also published articles in peer reviewed journals, including European Sociological Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Research on Social Stratification and Mobility, and Public Health. Chris Sanders is a doctoral candidate in the department of Sociology at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His research interests include the sociology of health and illness, uses of digital technology, and the Internet as a methodological research tool. He teaches research methods at the undergraduate level. Recently, he has presented research papers at academic conferences and currently has single and co-authored articles under peer review for the journals AIDS Care and Culture, Health & Sexuality.

• Introduction: Approaches to Quantifying Bourdieu.- How Bourdieu “Quantified” Bourdieu: The Geometric Modelling of Data.- Quantifying the Field of Power in Norway.- The Homology Thesis: Distinction Revisited.- Transmutations of Capitals in Canada: A ‘Social Space’ Approach.- The Cumulative Impact of Capital on Dispositions Across Time: A 15 Year Perspective of Young Canadians.- The Influence of Cultural Capital on Educational and Early Labour Market Outcomes of Young People in Australia.- Teenage Time Use as Investment in Cultural Capital.- Cultural Capital and Access to Highly Selective Education: The Case of Admission to Oxford.- Applying Bourdieu's Concepts of Social and Cultural Capital in Educational Research in Greece and Cyprus.- Occupational Structures: The Stratification Space of Social Interaction.- Women's Work and Cultural Reproduction: An Analysis of Non-Wage Labour in Central Ontario, 1861.- Quantifying Social Class: A Latent Clustering Approach.- Changing Determinants of Consumption in Hungary, 1982–1998.- Fanship Habitus: The Consumption of Sport in the US.- Quantifying Habitus: Future Directions.