Empirical Investigations of Social Space

Introduction (Jörg Blasius , Frédéric Lebaron, Brigitte Le Roux & Andreas Schmitz.- PART I: Construction of the Social Space.- Chapter 1. The Social Space as Matrix Concept (Loïc Wacquant).- Chapter 2. At the Apex of Educational Capital: The Space of Secondary Education in the University Town of Uppsala (Ida Lidegran, Mikael Börjesson & Donald Broady).- Chapter 3. Similarity in Form, Difference in Capital The Structure of the Swedish Social Space and the Role of Educational Capital, 1990-2008 (Andreas Melldahl).- Chapter 4. A Place at what Table? An Analysis of Symbolic Capital Hierarchies at the Norwegian Central Bank's Annual Dinner (Johs. Hjellbrekke & Olav Korsnes).- Chapter 5. Changes of Lifestyles in the Social Space (Jürgen Friedrichs & Jörg Blasius).- Chapter 6. The Social Space of mid-20th Century University Teachers in Sweden - The Case of Human Sciences (Tobias Dalberg).- Chapter 7. Nation-States as Fields (Andreas Schmitz, Daniel Witte & Heiko Heiberger).-Chapter 8. Capital Portfolios and Reproduction Strategies. Constructing the Social Space Based on Household Panel Data (Olaf Groh-Samberg & Nora Waitkus).- Chapter 9. Five Ways to Apprehend Classes (Stine Thidemann Faber, Annick Prieur, Lennart Rosenlund & Jakob Skjøtt-Larsen).- Chapter 10. Cultural Domains and Class Structure: Assessing Homologies and Cultural Legitimacy (Nicolas Robette & Olivier Roueff).- Chapter 11. The French Political Space after the Terror Attacks of Paris (Jean Ciché).- Chapter 12. Intergenerational Reproduction of Transnational and National Cultural Capital (Martin Munk).- Chapter 13. The Social Space of Norway (Magne Flemmen & Lennart Rosenlund).- PART II: Modeling Social Fields.- Chapter 14. The University within Academic Capitalism (Richard Münch).- Chapter 15. Economy in Crisis - Crisis of Economics? (Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg).- Chapter 16. Mapping the Public of a Literary Festival with MCA: the

Jörg Blasius is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology, University of Bonn, Germany. His research interests are mainly focused on explorative data analysis, especially correspondence analysis and related methods, data collection methods, sociology of lifestyles, and urban sociology. Together with Simona Balbi (Naples), Anne Ryen (Kristiansand) and Cor van Dijkum (Utrecht), he is editor of the Sage Series "Survey Research Methods in the Social Sciences". Together with Michael Greenacre (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) he founded Carme (Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods Network, see www.carme-n.org). From 1998 to 2016, he belonged to the Board of RC33 (Research Committee on Logic and Methodology in Sociology) of the ISA (International Sociological Association), from 2006 to 2010 he acted as President.

Brigitte Le Roux is Maître de Conférences at the Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées (MAP5), CRNS (the French National Center for Scientific Research) Université Paris Descartes and associate researcher at the political research center of SciencesPo Paris (CEVIPOF/CNRS). She serves on the editorial board of the journal Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales. She completed her doctoral dissertation with Jean-Paul Benzécri in 1970 at the Faculté des Sciences de Paris. She has contributed to numerous theoretical research works and full-scale empirical studies involving geometric data analysis.

Frederic Lebaron is professor at the chair of sociology at the Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and professor at the Sciences Po-Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He was Director of the Centre Universitaire de Recherches Administratives et Politiques de Picardie (CURAPP) from 2005-2013., and president of the Association Française de Sociologie between 2015 and 2017. His main research areas are political sociology, economic sociology, and quantitative methods of social sciences.He is