Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Practice offers nurses a framework to uncover embodied knowledge of patients living with disabilities or illnesses: A discussion paper

Oerther, Sarah; Oerther, Daniel B.

doi:10.1111/jan.13486

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“…My read of the literature on catastrophizing and avoidance behavior is meant to demonstrate that the dispositions contained within habitus can mediate pain. The doctor-patient interface may not be the place for invoking habitus, but this discussion shows the potential for habitus to serve as a heuristic for the social elements of pain within medical research—indeed, Oerther and Oerther (2018) make just this point in the context of treating patients adjusting to disabilities. Whereas this use of pain research affirms habitus as Bourdieu theorized it, I now look more closely at how pain impacts the brain to underline the “bio” in the bio-habitus.…”

Section: How Habitus Mediates Painmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Bio-Habitus: Using Pain Science to Reconstruct Bourdieusian Theory

Leeds

2024

Sociological Theory

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Habitus is society inscribed on the body, but Bourdieu does not explore how biological processes interact with habitus, namely, how action flows from a bio-habitus. I engage pain science to illustrate this point. First, I document how dispositions—specific components of habitus—mediate pain both before and after its onset. Second, I explain how pain alters cognition and affect, an interaction I contend inhibits the habitus. Far from placing the biological over the social, my discussion illustrates how the two are inseparable, a unity underlined by the term bio-habitus. I demonstrate how this concept intervenes in Bourdieusian debates over social reproduction and how the biological inhibition of habitus compares to work on hysteresis. I end by discussing resonances with and implications for disability studies.

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Section: How Habitus Mediates Painmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Bio-Habitus: Using Pain Science to Reconstruct Bourdieusian Theory

Leeds

2024

Sociological Theory

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“…Therefore, it is important to interpret these three core concepts. These concepts are based on Bourdieu’s theory of class distinction: economics, social relations and culture are concepts used to explain human relationships and individual personalities when interacting within a thriving society (Bourdieu, 1979; Oerther and Oerther, 2018). Economics is linked to the upper, middle and lower classes in terms of the economic status of individuals or groups.…”

Section: The Residents’ Economic Social Cultural Concepts and Theorymentioning

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Economic, social and cultural concepts for building a healthy community among residents of a Japanese shopping street

Ohashi

Sugawara

Ozaki

2022

WWOP

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Purpose This study aims to highlight the value of economics, social relations and culture in building a healthy community by interpreting qualitative data. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative descriptive approach was used between June 2016 and May 2017 and interviews were analysed inductively. Twenty residents of a shopping street in Tohoku, a rural town in north-eastern Japan, participated in this survey. This study focused on the residents’ value of economics, social relations and culture in building a healthy community. Findings People acquired economic benefits in the hope of gaining irreplaceable relationships with customers and residents, including memorable stories and heart-to-heart satisfaction. The narratives reflected not only the ideal aspects of social relations but also realistic and complex aspects, such as feelings of being uncomfortable with strangers, whether they were long-term residents or newcomers. The daily life of the town is a story, which is built based on customs fostered and strengthened through capital bonds. Originality/value To build a healthy community, people residing on shopping streets have unique care systems in which multiple glass shop windows make it easier to tell narrative stories, communicate or request assistance, which is very different from knocking on doors in suburban neighbourhoods.

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“…A Bourdieusian theoretical lens was used to inform the analysis of doxas that reproduce the status quo of oppression within the social work field of practice (Edwards & Imrie, 2003). Doxas were defined in this research as the absent but implicit rules of practice within each field, embodied in the performance of action (Oerther & Oerther, 2018). The project also employs Bourdieu's notion of reflexivity, which embraces the way that socio-cultural discourse interconnects with the research practitioner's subjectivities as central to the knowledge-production process (Wiegmann, 2017).…”

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Re-writing the “rules of engagement”: Using critical reflection to examine ableist social work practice

Fox

2021

ANZSWJ

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INTRODUCTION: Normative beliefs and practices reaffirm a hegemonic construction of human ability that legitimises the socio-cultural status quo. This disenfranchises people with diverse abilities who are excluded from this construction whilst simultaneously normalising the structural inequality and oppression that they experience. Helping professions such as social work often provide support to people who are disadvantaged by these social structures. However, practitioners within these fields are not immune to the influence of socio-cultural norms, therefore it is essential for them to reflect on the ways in which they might reproduce them within their practice.APPROACH: This article outlines my experience of using critical reflection as a research methodology to examine an incident from my practice. Deconstruction and reconstruction methods were used to analyse the normative assumptions within my construction of this incident.REFLECTIONS: The deconstruction analysis revealed how assumptions about impairment within my account of the incident were underpinned by ableist discourses. Reconstructing this through a neurodiversity lens enabled me to generate new insights around the anti-oppressive potential for using a pluralistic approach that undermines hegemonic constructions of ability.CONCLUSIONS: By critically reflecting on this incident, I realised the importance of challenging normative assumptions when practising within neoliberal contexts where socio-cultural hegemony is amplified.

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Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Practice offers nurses a framework to uncover embodied knowledge of patients living with disabilities or illnesses: A discussion paper

Cited by 10 publications

References 35 publications

The Bio-Habitus: Using Pain Science to Reconstruct Bourdieusian Theory

The Bio-Habitus: Using Pain Science to Reconstruct Bourdieusian Theory

Economic, social and cultural concepts for building a healthy community among residents of a Japanese shopping street

Re-writing the “rules of engagement”: Using critical reflection to examine ableist social work practice

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