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The uses and functions of ageing celebrity war reporters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article starts from the premise that recognition of professional authority and celebrity status depends on the embodiment and performance of field-specific dispositional practices: there’s no such thing as a natural, though we often talk about ...
Bourdieu P.   +21 more
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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
wiley   +1 more source

Celebrity advocacy and public engagement: the divergent uses of celebrity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article sounds a cautionary note about the instrumental use of celebrity advocacy to (re)engage audiences in public life. It begins by setting out the steps necessary to achieve public recognition of a social problem requiring a response.
Best J   +20 more
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Debunking the Myth: A Dive Into the Role of Relational Capital in Sustainable Food Production Systems

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: Symbolic power, politics and intellectuals: the political sociology of Pierre Bourdieu [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
"Symbolic Power, Politics and Intellectuals: The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu." David L. Swartz. University of Chicago Press. May 2013.
Mcdonagh, Luke T.
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Applying the ideas of Bernstein in the context of in-company management education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Ideas drawn from the sociology of education have had surprisingly little impact on debates on organizational learning. This article takes ideas drawn from the sociology of education and applies them to a subset of organizational learning, the rapidly ...
Mutch, A
core   +1 more source

Who Should Lead Academia Today? Rethinking Leadership Across Career Stages

open access: yesClinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Leadership in academic institutions and professional societies plays a critical role in shaping the future of scholarship, governance, and educational equity. However, a persistent trend, particularly in long‐established organizations, reveals that retired faculty, such as professors emeriti, often fill executive leadership roles.
Joe Iwanaga   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bourdieu, feminism and female physical culture: Gender reflexivity and the habitus-field complex [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Feminist theorizing in the sociology of sport and physical culture has progressed through ongoing and intense dialogue with an array of critical positions and voices in the social sciences (e.g., Judith Butler, R.W. Connell, Michel Foucault).
Thorpe, Holly Aysha
core   +2 more sources

Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epilogue: Bourdieu's legacy?

open access: yes, 2010
Assessing the main points of impact of the work of Bourdieu in contemporary academic ...
Silva, Elizabeth, Warde, Alan
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