Geometric Data Analysis in a Social Science Research Program ...
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<strong>Program</strong>basedontheuseof<strong>Geometric</strong><strong>Data</strong><strong>Analysis</strong>. Frenchpublishers,wetryto<strong>in</strong>ferfromBourdieu'spracticeageneralSociological<strong>Research</strong> leaders).Then,<strong>in</strong>alastparagraph,aftertheexam<strong>in</strong>ationofhislastempiricalworkabout 6 Booktitlegoeshere<br />
cooperatedwithstatisticiansoftheFrenchNationalInstituteofStatisticsandEconomic Studies(INSEE).Heparticularlydidit<strong>in</strong>large-scalelaborforcesurveysundertakendur- 1.2BourdieuandStatistics Asearlyasthe\Algeriantimes"(thesecondhalfofthe1950s,Bourdieu,1958),Bourdieu<br />
employment(Bourdieu,Sayad,Darbel&Seibel1963[16];Garcia2003[22];Seibel2005 [35];Yass<strong>in</strong>e,2008[36]). perspectivetothesociological<strong>in</strong>terpretationofsurveydata,especiallythestatisticsofun<strong>in</strong>gtheperiodoftheliberationwar(around1960).Bourdieuappliedhisanthropologicalgories.InL'amourdel'art,BourdieuandDarbel(1966[12])publishequationsofthededirectedbyRaymondAron),asreected<strong>in</strong>thecontributiontoLesheritiersbythestatisticianAla<strong>in</strong>Darbel(Bourdieu,Passeron,1964[15]).Darbelisassociatedwiththeepochmak<strong>in</strong>gcalculationofthechancesofaccesstouniversityforthevarioussocialclasscate Thiscollaborationcont<strong>in</strong>ued<strong>in</strong>the1960sattheCentredeSociologieEuropeenne(then<br />
mandforculturalgoods,whereculturalcapitalmeasuredaccord<strong>in</strong>gtothelevelofdiploma, isthema<strong>in</strong>variableexpla<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>equalities<strong>in</strong>accesstomuseums.But,s<strong>in</strong>cethattime, Bourdieuhasbeen<strong>in</strong>questforamorestructuralconception. ism<strong>in</strong>Frenchsocialsciences<strong>in</strong>the1960s,especiallywiththemodelsofl<strong>in</strong>guisticsand philosopherofscienceErnstCassirer.Thisneedisalsorooted,thoughnotexplicitly,<strong>in</strong> ofanthropologyaroundClaudeLevi{Strauss.ForBourdieu,itisalsobasedontheoppositionbetween\substantialist"and\relational"conceptionsofreality,developedbytheThisearly2needforamorestructuralconceptionrelatestothe<strong>in</strong>uenceofstructural- byJean-PaulBenzecriandhisschoolaroundCorrespondence<strong>Analysis</strong>wasemerg<strong>in</strong>g(see ferredtotheneedforscientic<strong>in</strong>strumentswhichwouldbecapableatgrasp<strong>in</strong>gtherelational dimensionofsocialreality.Meanwhile,thegeometricapproachofdataanalysisdeveloped thedynamicsofmathematicsunderthe<strong>in</strong>uenceofBourbaki,whowasalsoanimplicit<br />
LeRoux&Rouanet2004[25];Rouanet2006[32]).Bourdieuhadbeenawareofits<strong>in</strong>cethe reference{frameforpecialistsofthehumanandsocialsciences.Bourdieuhimselfoftenre-<br />
economists(Darras1966[17]),BourdieuandDarbelevokethelimitsofregressiontechniques 1960s. <strong>in</strong>socialsciences.Theyexplicitlyrefertoquasi{col<strong>in</strong>earityasanimportantshortcom<strong>in</strong>g, buttheydevelopamoreepistemologicalcritique.<strong>Social</strong>causalityamountstotheglobal eectsofacomplexstructureof<strong>in</strong>terrelations,whichisnotreducibletothecomb<strong>in</strong>ationof InachapterofLepartagedesbeneces,collectivebookwrittenwithstatisticiansand<br />
p.103):\theparticularrelationsbetweenadependentvariable(politicalop<strong>in</strong>ion)andso- the\pureeects"of<strong>in</strong>dependentvariables.AsBourdieurmlystates<strong>in</strong>Ladist<strong>in</strong>ction([6] called<strong>in</strong>dependentvariablessuchassex,ageandreligion,tendtodissimulatethecomplete systemofrelationsthatmakeupthetruepr<strong>in</strong>cipleoftheforceandformspecictothe eectsrecorded<strong>in</strong>suchandsuchparticularcorrelation". <strong>in</strong>1960.<br />
2ArstversionofthefamoustextaboutLamaisonkabylestrongly<strong>in</strong>uencedbyLevi-Straussiswritten
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