Capital Gains: A Bourdieusian Map of the United States Pubblico
Nelson-Goedert, Nicholaus (2016)
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Abstract
In this dissertation, I explore the political culture of the United States by utilizing Pierre Bourdieu's sociological framework of culture in light of Daniel Elazar's twentieth century state political categorization. While building upon Bourdieu's core social concepts of habitus, capital, and the field, in tandem with his account of national development, I develop a map of the United States that demarcates where categories of such variables are located. I deem these categories Bourdieusian political cultures. Finally, I delve into the nascent development for Bourdieusian political cultures and mechanisms of sustainability.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Political Culture, Pierre Bourdieu, and the American States 5
Overview 6
Political Culture 7-8
Political Culture Theories 9
Elazar 16
Cultural Streams 17
Chapter 2: Bourdieu and Political Culture 21
Field 22
Capital 23
Habitus 23-24
Bourdieu and State Development 25
State 26
Physical Force and Economic Capital 27-28
Informational Capital 33
Symbolic Capital 33-24
State Nobility 35-41
Power 41
Bourdieu and Political Culture 43
Chapter 3: Toward the Bourdieusian Political Cultures of the American States 45
Elazar's Political Cultures 47
Measures of Capital 52
Principal Component Analysis 54
Incorporating Additional Capital Measures 56
Civil War 57
Chapter 4: Mapping Bourdieusian Political Culture in the American States 60
Background for Political Mappings 61
Utility of the Capital Centered Map 64
Final Revised Bourdieusian Map 77
Chapter 5: Validating and Contextualizing Bourdieusian Maps of American Political Culture 79
Measuring Ideology 81
Factor Analysis 82
Cluster Factor Scores 86
Clusters and Ideology 88
Conservatism 88-91
Democratic Party Membership 92-94
Democratic Congressional Representation 95
Poole's Congressional Conservatism 98
Social Conservatism 99
Religiosity 102
Chapter 6: Practices: An Integrative and Explanatory Focus 106
Habitus 106
Bourdieusian Social Theory 107
Practice 107
Political Habitus 108
Political Capital 109
Political Field 109
Bourdieusian Political Culture 110
Conclusion 113
Appendix A: Elazarian Political Cultures 114
Appendix B: Canonical Correlations 122
Bibliography 129
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