Religion and Social Class: Theory and Method after Bourdieu

McKinnon, Andrew

doi:10.5153/sro.4247

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“…On the one hand, many criticize it because it is a normative view of the society more than based on empirical data (Swatos and Christiano, 1999). On the other hand, some will emphasize the institutional differentiation, the separation of religion from other secular spheres (Casanova, 1994; Dobbelaere, 1999), and as a consequence a diminishment of the religious authority (Chavez and Cavendish, 1994), a decline in the value of religious capital (McKinnon, 2017) or the de-Christianization of the world (Swatos and Christiano, 1999). Bruce (2011) is one of the few authors who still use it in the traditional way.…”

Section: The North Atlantic Explanationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An enchanted modernity: Making sense of Latin America’s religious landscape

Morello

Romero

Rabbia

et al. 2017

Critical Research on Religion

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This is an interpretative, critical, and selective review of scholarly contributions that explore Latin America’s religious landscape. We present data, both qualitative and quantitative, from Latin America and analyze the explanations given to make sense of it. After assessing the literature that uses either secularization theory or the “religious economy” approach, we study explanations that highlight a Latin American style of “popular religiosity.” These three models, in different ways, put the emphasis on religious institutions—their vitality, commands, competition, and authority. We propose, instead, a focus on the religious practices of regular believers. We speculate that embarking from that focus, the idea of an “enchanted modernity” will help make sense of Latin America’s religious landscape. Nuanced elucidation of Latin America’s religious particularities will situate them in dialogue with other regions of the world, like western Europe and the United States, while also acknowledging the fact that Latin America is experiencing a modernization process distinct from the North Atlantic one.

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Section: The North Atlantic Explanationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An enchanted modernity: Making sense of Latin America’s religious landscape

Morello

Romero

Rabbia

et al. 2017

Critical Research on Religion

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“…Our results on professional sport also raise key theoretical questions, such as where does this knowledge and familiarity with different cultural objects come from and what purposes does they serve? Finally, if the important cultural knowledge around sport is indeed less classed than other forms of culture, important for creating connections, our results also suggest that professional sport may be a site of potential bridging cultural capital, not unlike religion (McKinnon 2017), where those of different socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds can form beneficial cross-status connections.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 77%

The measure of a fan: Social patterns of voracious sports following in Canada

Gemar¹,

Vanzella‐Yang

2022

Canadian Review of Sociology

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Sociological studies on the manifestations and reproduction of inequality through cultural consumption have focused on few domains of culture and have mostly neglected intensity in consumption. Using largescale survey data about professional sports following in Canada, we investigate how socioeconomic position is associated with intensity of professional sports following ("voraciousness"). Our multinomial logistic regression analyses suggest that social class, gender, and geography are predictors of voraciousness in each of the major professional sports leagues. Our latent class analysis (LCA) reveals seven sports following profiles marked by differences in range and intensity of following. We find that the most voracious sport followers are also the most omnivorous but are not distinctively the most privileged group. Findings suggest a distinct sport following profile of the predominantly male and economically dominant group in the field of social classes and point toward groups of sport followers with different styles of aversion and passing knowledge, perhaps in a type of deployment of Bourdieu's (1984) disinterested aesthetic. Overall, however, gender and region appear to be stronger predictors of voraciousness in sports following than social class in the Canadian context.

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“…In addition, social class still appears in contemporary Bourdieusian studies as an important factor influencing people's actions, such as their religious practices and educational results (e.g. Alves, 2016;McKinnon, 2017;Stahl, 2016).…”

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A reflexividade como elemento de mediação - O caso de Francisco Milanez

2021

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This article aimed to discuss how Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of reflexivity was conceived, and how it influenced and was developed by Bernard Lahire’s in his sociology. To operationalize the way the concept is articulated, but emphasizing its development by Lahire, this paper presents as an empirical case how reflexivity was engendered in José Francisco Bernardes Milanez’ biographical trajectory, a historical environmental activist from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The central argument we defend is that the Bourdieusian-inspired concept of reflexivity has a certain objectivist and structuralist weight, which gives a secondary role to individuals’ reflection capacity and agency. Despite this weight, reflexivity acts as a mediator between structures and their individual agency within actors’ social lives. In this sense, reflexive capacities can be better understood and analyzed by considering the ways individuals connect their daily practices, dialectically and concomitantly, with reflexive processes. This article emphasizes that sociological analyses at the individual level can be potentially more substantive if they consider structure, agency, and reflexivity in an integrated way. Finally, we argue that the conceptual and argumentative association of elements from the two authors helps to avoid false antinomies.

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Religion and Social Class: Theory and Method after Bourdieu

Cited by 18 publications

References 45 publications

An enchanted modernity: Making sense of Latin America’s religious landscape

An enchanted modernity: Making sense of Latin America’s religious landscape

The measure of a fan: Social patterns of voracious sports following in Canada

A reflexividade como elemento de mediação - O caso de Francisco Milanez

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