Doing organizational studies with Bourdieu

In an important paper published recently in Theory and Society, Mustafa Emirbayer and Victoria Johnson argue for a more comprehensive usage of Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, capital and field in organizational analysis. So far, most authors have been using them selectively and one at a time, whereas Bourdieu’s mode of thought really only rises to its full strength when all three of these key concepts are combined, they argue.

There’s a post on this at orgtheory.net, in which brayden states:

Emirbayer and Johnson provide a good overview of how Bourdieuian concepts might be more fully utilized in organizational research. The paper is well worth reading.

and provides some highlights.