18 Practices
Mark B. Salter
Introduction
Bourdieusian-inspired field analysis is a methodological tool kit that takes as its object of study the formal and informal practices within a structured, rule-governed, objective social sphere that is not predetermined by institutional or national boundaries, but nevertheless share a logic, or a sense of the rules of the games. Fields are constituted by sets of relations and positions in a given social sphere (such as security, academe, religion, etc.); social, symbolic, cultural, and economic capital are up for grabs within the field. Multiple relations may be competitive, cooperative, hegemonic, and transversal (in relation to other fields), but all agents recognize ...
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