ABSTRACT

A couple of deviations from Pierre Bourdieu's approach within this study that are needed in order to make use of the previous insights on the sociological analysis of civil wars and conflict, and the analysis of social structures in general and outside of Europe and the United States (US) in particular. Many of them relate to Bourdieu's concept of social space, but, for the most part, they may be resolved with some slight changes using his concept of a 'field'. Within his seminal study 'Distinction', variations in habitus formation within the French social structure are analyzed through the construction of a two-dimensional social space. Using correspondence analysis, Bourdieu structures a society's social space along two dimensions defined by economic and cultural resources on its x-axis and y-axis, respectively. However, as Bourdieu himself constantly highlights and also tries to make use of using additional qualitative methodologies such as more or less structured interviews, "The social world is accumulated history" as well.