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Accessing Habitus: Relating Structure and Agency through Focus Group Research

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  • Gill Callaghan

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The article focuses on the intersection of theory methodology and empirical research to argue that we can learn about habitus through certain types of focus groups. An account of the relationship between structure, individual and collective agency is developed to provide a grounding for the methodological argument. The article suggests, on the basis of this understanding, that focus groups can be constituted to give us access to interactions which draw upon the collective basis of habitus. Some empirical work is drawn upon for illustrative purposes.

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  • Gill Callaghan, 2005. "Accessing Habitus: Relating Structure and Agency through Focus Group Research," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 10(3), pages 33-44, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:10:y:2005:i:3:p:33-44
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.1129
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    1. Michaela Benson, 2014. "Trajectories of middle-class belonging: The dynamics of place attachment and classed identities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 51(14), pages 3097-3112, November.
    2. Robinson, Jude & Kirkcaldy, Andrew J., 2007. "'You think that I'm smoking and they're not': Why mothers still smoke in the home," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 65(4), pages 641-652, August.
    3. Martina Angela Caretta & Elena Vacchelli, 2015. "Re-Thinking the Boundaries of the Focus Group: A Reflexive Analysis on the Use and Legitimacy of Group Methodologies in Qualitative Research," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 20(4), pages 58-70, November.

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