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Critical Reflections on the Use of Bourdieu’s Tools ‘In Concert’ to Understand the Practices of Learning in Three Musical Sites

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  • Garth Stahl

    (University of South Australia, Australia)

  • Pamela Burnard

    (University of Cambridge, UK)

  • Rosie Perkins

    (Royal College of Music, UK)

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Bourdieu’s rich conceptual tools of habitus, capital, and field continue to be useful in multiple areas of sociological research; however, his tools take many shapes within his own writing and different disciplines. In this article, we reflect on our use of Bourdieu’s tools in order to enhance our understanding of how Bourdieu’s notion of ‘practice’ can be applied to practices of learning in sociological studies on music. Through comparisons of three separate studies (a secondary school, a conservatoire, and an industry), we employ a comparative method of analytic induction where we think critically about how we used Bourdieu’s tools in overlapping but analytically distinct ways. After exploring the extent to which Bourdieu’s tools proved productive, or not, to think with, we end with a concluding synthesis, which highlights the challenges associated with representing forms of Bourdieu’s ‘practice’ as they relate to and inhere in practices of learning .

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  • Garth Stahl & Pamela Burnard & Rosie Perkins, 2017. "Critical Reflections on the Use of Bourdieu’s Tools ‘In Concert’ to Understand the Practices of Learning in Three Musical Sites," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 22(3), pages 57-77, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:22:y:2017:i:3:p:57-77
    DOI: 10.1177/1360780417724073
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