Our SIG, Bourdieu in Educational Research, aims to build and maintain a community of scholars interested in how Bourdieu is used in educational research.

Bourdieu’s work moved across areas of the sociology of social science; the need for methodological openness combined with rigor; and the need to think theoretically and reflexively about social-scientific methods that fit the problematic being addressed. 

His own extensive empirical studies entailed complex mixes of methods: for example, his creative statistical “analysis of correspondence” joined to qualitative interview data in researching how people create capital out of social-cultural distinctions (see Bourdieu 1984).

As a community, we seek to build dialogue around how Bourdieu's intellectual and political bequest can offer us to take collective action on building a better education and a fairer society.  

Guanglun Michael Mu

SIG Chair