This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. This book introduces the non …

We draw on 120 years of biographical data (N= 120,764) contained within Who's Who—a
unique catalogue of the British elite—to explore the changing relationship between elite …

Field theorists have long insisted that research needs to pay attention to the particular
properties of each field studied. But while much field‐theoretical research is comparative …

Pierre Bourdieu was the most influential sociologist of the late 20th century. The framework
he developed continues to inspire countless researchers across the globe and provokes …

This introductory paper argues that it is vital to reorient class analysis away from its long term
preoccupation with class boundaries in the middle levels of the class structure towards a …

Although there is general agreement on the definition of social capital as the benefits to be
derived from social connections, the type of advantages (more effective transacting across …

Although the business elites in western societies have a very privileged social background
in common, there are substantial differences in the reproduction mechanisms and social …

Social capital has been alleged to increase the capacity for political mobilization. Yet, until
now, the empirical debate has not succeeded in rendering a detailed account of the …

This paper discusses the role of privileged research objects ('model systems') in producing
patterns in transnational knowledge production. In its approach it follows Bourdieu's call to …

This article attempts to bridge a divide between the empirical use of Bourdieu's concepts
and the theoretical discussion of field theory with regard to education. I ask how a school …