'Bourdieu', medical elites and 'social class': a qualitative study of 'desert island' doctors Ruth McDonald
'Bourdieu', medical elites and 'social class': a qualitative study of 'desert island' doctors Ruth McDonald
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10.1111/1467-9566.12121
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2014-07-01
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2.9
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McDonald, Ruth
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作者：
McDonald, Ruth
职业社会学家借鉴了韦伯的封闭理论。然而，他们倾向于忽视布迪厄的工作，该工作拒绝将阶级和地位群体作为不同的理想类型的韦伯概念，并将这些概念视为千丝万缕的联系。布迪厄强调了以阶级为基础的习性的重要性，它产生了组织实践和对实践的感知的定向、倾向和倾向。对于布尔迪厄来说，由于个人主要通过依附于其实践的地位(通过象征性的荣誉面纱)来感知彼此，他们未能感知这些实践的真正基础：支撑不同习性并使其得以实现的资本形式。这篇文章采用了对17名参加英国国家广播节目的精英医生的采访，在节目中，他们选择了8张光盘带到一个荒岛上。根据布迪厄的说法，没有什么比一个人的音乐品味更能明确地肯定一个人的“等级”，没有什么比这个人的音乐品味更能准确地归类了。对医生的音乐品味和获得方式的分析(对于这些精英来说，主要是通过他们的家庭和私立学校的教育)，以及对他们文化资本的其他洞察，揭示了在探索专业地位和声望时将阶级和地位联系起来的重要性。
Sociologists of professions draw on Weberian theories of closure. However they have tended to ignore Bourdieu's work, which rejects Weberian notions of class and status groups as distinct ideal types and sees these concepts as inextricably linked. Bourdieu emphasises the importance of a class-based habitus which generates orientations, inclinations and dispositions that organise practices and the perception of practice. For Bourdieu, because individuals perceive one another primarily through the status that attaches to their practices (through a symbolic veil of honour) they fail to perceive the real basis of these practices: the forms of capital that underlie the different habitus and enable their realisation. This article draws on interviews with 17 elite doctors appearing on a national (UK) radio show during which they choose eight discs to take to a desert island. According to Bourdieu, 'nothing more clearly affirms one's "class", nothing more infallibly classifies, than one's taste in music'. An analysis of the doctors' musical tastes and their mode of acquisition (largely, for these elites, via their family and education at independent schools), as well as other insights into their cultural capital reveals the importance of linking class and status when exploring professional status and prestige.