| Charting Transnational Fields: Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge Subjects: Politics & International Relations; Research Methods ; Social Sciences; Quantitative and Statistical Methods; Qualitative Methods; Research Methods for Social and Behavioral Sciences; Sociology & Social Policy; International Relations; Transnationalism; Political Sociology; Social Theory; Sociology of Knowledge; The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization. Drawing on seminal work by Pierre Bourdieu, we apply concepts of practice, habitus, and field to phenomena such as cross-national social trajectories, international procedures of evaluation, standardization, and certification, or supranational political structures. These transnational phenomena form part of general political struggles that legitimate social relationships in and beyond the nation-state. Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg is Assistant Professor at Potsdam University, Germany. Stefan Bernhard is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany. |