Citation Concept Analysis (CCA) of concepts introduced by Pierre Bourdieu: Measuring their impact across fields and periods

Bornmann, Lutz; Crothers, Charles; Haunschild, Robin

doi:10.2478/jdis-2025-0009

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Citation concept analysis (CCA) of Bourdieu’s oeuvre_ How frequently have concepts (the concepts are decreasingly sorted by the column “Total”) been cited in various FOSs?

FOS		Art	Business	Computer Science	Economics	Engineering	Geography	History	Mathematics	Medicine	Philosophy	Political Sceince	Psychology	Sociology	Total
Concept		Art	Business	Computer Science	Economics	Engineering	Geography	History	Mathematics	Medicine	Philosophy	Political Sceince	Psychology	Sociology	Total
social	n	6	111	101	328	45	59	9	11	108	7	506	468	965	2,735
capital	%	7.79	49.78	37.00	50.08	26.95	30.41	15.79	30.56	40.15	22.58	42.59	35.32	27.13	33.86
cultural	n	17	39	36	144	36	40	10	8	52	4	325	420	864	2,001
capital	%	22.08	17.49	13.19	21.98	21.56	20.62	17.54	22.22	19.33	12.90	27.36	31.70	24.29	24.77
habitus	n	13	27	40	97	46	54	17	9	69	10	234	339	964	1,927
	%	16.88	12.11	14.65	14.81	27.54	27.84	29.82	25.00	25.65	32.26	19.70	25.58	27.10	23.85
field	n	25	37	47	85	27	26	2	6	19	10	188	156	723	1,356
	%	32.47	16.59	17.22	12.98	16.17	13.40	3.51	16.67	7.06	32.26	15.82	11.77	20.33	16.79
practice	n	6	38	57	49	49	21	13	9	48	3	107	163	459	1,022
	%	7.79	17.04	20.88	7.48	29.34	10.82	22.81	25.00	17.84	9.68	9.01	12.30	12.90	12.65
economic	n	7	20	17	83	13	20	1	3	14	7	150	116	301	754
capital	%	9.09	8.97	6.23	12.67	7.78	10.31	1.75	8.33	5.20	22.58	12.63	8.75	8.46	9.33
symbolic	n	11	13	18	50	8	17	8	2	14	1	71	77	271	564
capital	%	14.29	5.83	6.59	7.63	4.79	8.76	14.04	5.56	5.20	3.23	5.98	5.81	7.62	6.98
distinction	n	6	7	10	28	6	12	6	2	9	0	22	36	200	347
	%	7.79	3.14	3.66	4.27	3.59	6.19	10.53	5.56	3.35	0.00	1.85	2.72	5.62	4.30
reproduction	n	2	2	3	15	9	3	6	2	8	1	67	59	153	331
	%	2.60	0.90	1.10	2.29	5.39	1.55	10.53	5.56	2.97	3.23	5.64	4.45	4.30	4.10
symbolic	n	0	3	3	3	1	9	1	0	11	0	19	19	109	178
violence	%	0.00	1.35	1.10	0.46	0.60	4.64	1.75	0.00	4.09	0.00	1.60	1.43	3.06	2.20
social	n	2	2	7	6	5	4	1	0	8	0	21	21	79	156
space	%	2.60	0.90	2.56	0.92	2.99	2.06	1.75	0.00	2.97	0.00	1.77	1.58	2.22	1.93
doxa	n	0	1	1	3	1	7	0	0	2	1	12	12	48	88
	%	0.00	0.45	0.37	0.46	0.60	3.61	0.00	0.00	0.74	3.23	1.01	0.91	1.35	1.09
reflexivity	n	0	0	1	4	2	1	0	1	4	0	6	18	48	85
	%	0.00	0.00	0.37	0.61	1.20	0.52	0.00	2.78	1.49	0.00	0.51	1.36	1.35	1.05
Total	n	95	300	341	895	248	273	74	53	366	44	1,728	1,904	5,184	11,544
	%	123.38	134.53	124.91	136.64	148.50	140.72	129.82	147.22	136.06	141.94	145.45	143.70	142.91
Cases	N	77	223	273	655	167	194	57	36	269	31	1,188	1,325	3,557	8,078

Number and percentage of citances – referring to the concepts in Bourdieu’s oeuvre – reflecting uncertainty (all FOSs together; the concepts are decreasingly sorted by the last column)_

Concept	Number of uncertainty mentions	Percent of uncertainty mentions (n=1,386)	Number of concept mentions	Percent of concept mentions with uncertainty (n=11,544)
doxa	13	0.94	88	14.77
social capital	402	29.00	2,735	14.70
economic capital	97	7.00	754	12.86
cultural capital	250	18.04	2,001	12.49
distinction	43	3.10	347	12.39
field	164	11.83	1,356	12.09
symbolic capital	65	4.69	564	11.52
habitus	208	15.01	1,927	10.79
symbolic violence	19	1.37	178	10.67
reflexivity	8	0.58	85	9.41
reproduction	27	1.95	331	8.16
social space	12	0.87	156	7.69
practice	78	5.63	1,022	7.63
Total	1,386	100.00	11,544	12.01

Bourdieu’s concepts and corresponding search terms_

Concept	Search term
cultural capital	‘culturalcapital’ or ‘capital*cultural’
economic capital	‘economiccapital’ or ‘capital*economic’
social capital	‘socialcapital’ or ‘capital*social’
symbolic capital	‘symboliccapital’ or ‘capital*symbolic’
symbolic violence	‘symbolic violence’
doxa	‘doxa’
reproduction	‘reproduction’
reflexivity	‘reflexivity’
distinction	‘distinction’
habitus	‘habitus’
practice	‘practice’
field	‘field’
social space	‘social space’

Citation concept analysis (CCA) of Bourdieu’s oeuvre: How frequently have concepts (the concepts are decreasingly sorted by the column ‘Total’) been cited in various periods (i_e_, publication year periods)?

		Publication year period
		1975-2005	2006-2010	2011-2020	Total
social capital	n	271	1,007	1,457	2,735
	%	30.69	34.38	34.15	33.86
cultural capital	n	212	743	1,046	2,001
	%	24.01	25.37	24.52	24.77
habitus	n	184	724	1,019	1,927
	%	20.84	24.72	23.89	23.85
field	n	126	476	754	1,356
	%	14.27	16.25	17.67	16.79
practice	n	134	406	482	1,022
	%	15.18	13.86	11.30	12.65
economic capital	n	61	281	412	754
	%	6.91	9.59	9.66	9.33
symbolic capital	n	56	226	282	564
	%	6.34	7.72	6.61	6.98
distinction	n	36	172	139	347
	%	4.08	5.87	3.26	4.30
reproduction	n	46	111	174	331
	%	5.21	3.79	4.08	4.10
symbolic violence	n	26	61	91	178
	%	2.94	2.08	2.13	2.20
social space	n	19	59	78	156
	%	2.15	2.01	1.83	1.93
doxa	n	10	29	49	88
	%	1.13	0.99	1.15	1.09
reflexivity	n	9	35	41	85
	%	1.02	1.19	0.96	1.05
Total	n	1,190	4,330	6,024	11,544
	%	134.77	147.83	141.21	142.91
Cases	N	883	2,929	4,266	8,078

Citation Concept Analysis (CCA) of concepts introduced by Pierre Bourdieu: Measuring their impact across fields and periods

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Citation concept analysis (CCA) of Bourdieu’s oeuvre_ How frequently have concepts (the concepts are decreasingly sorted by the column “Total”) been cited in various FOSs?

Number and percentage of citances – referring to the concepts in Bourdieu’s oeuvre – reflecting uncertainty (all FOSs together; the concepts are decreasingly sorted by the last column)_

Bourdieu’s concepts and corresponding search terms_

Citation concept analysis (CCA) of Bourdieu’s oeuvre: How frequently have concepts (the concepts are decreasingly sorted by the column ‘Total’) been cited in various periods (i_e_, publication year periods)?

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