Rainer Diaz-Bone (2025)
In: Rainer Diaz-Bone & Andreas Lehmann-Wermser (eds.), Perspectives on Music after Bourdieu. Contributions from Music Education and Sociology of Music. Cham: Springer, pp. 145-190

Abstract. Sociology of music is strongly influenced by the work of Pierre Bourdieu for several decades now. The chapter introduces Bourdieu’s main concepts and focuses on the neostructuralist methodology of field analysis. It is argued that the analysis of musicals worlds is most substantially proceeded by employing field analysis. It is probably precisely because of his influence that Bourdieu’s theoretical perspective and his methodology are also subject to fundamental criticism. This includes the questions of a non-reductionist explanation of the value of culture and of the relative autonomy of cultural discourses as well as the needed inclusion of agency and objects in cultural analysis. Also, criticism has pointed to the plurality of logics of quality and orders of justification (instead of the assumption of field structures and habitus as the only structuring principles). Neostructuralist and neopragmatist objections against Bourdieusian positions are introduced and perspectives to advance field analysis are introduced. For this, the neopragmatist approaches of Howard S. Becker and of the “economics and sociology of conventions” (in short EC/SC) are employed to work out a neopragmatist-neostructuralist perspective. Especially EC/SC has gained its own standing and contributed to cultural analysis in general but also to sociology of music in particular.
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GdL (22 novembre 2025). Distinction, Discourses, Conventions and Valorization—Neostructuralist and Neopragmatist Perspectives for the Sociology of Music. Économie des conventions. Consulté le 9 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/156v1