View on nature- a practical relation

Basic Hypothesis: Nature is per definition

opposite to culture.Therefore our relation to nature

is based on culture.

Culturally based phenomena can be analysed sociologically

Hypothesis regarding nature:Our relation to nature is a

practice relationPractice originates from agents

habitus

Habitus and hence view on nature are distributed in social

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Description of social conditions

Bourdieu - basic epistemological principle

Description of agent’s practice

Agent

Subjective world - understanding and interpretation of the

surrounding world

Researcher

Analysis: Objectivation of social conditions and of agent’s practice - leading to construction of the structuring principle

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Institution

Social objective/obejctiviced world

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View on Nature?

Social Space

Cultural Capital +

Economic Capital +

Capital, total +

Capital, total -

View on Nature

Homology

EC +CC +

Nature related capital(s)?

Structuring principle

Ctot +

Ctot -

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Do I have a specific concept for nature?

• Yes - that nature should be viewed as a social construction i.e. constructed by agents and their social conditions.

• Agtents’ relation to nature is a practice relation

• The practice relation may see nature as something eternal ..

• ... or something incorporated ...

• ... or?

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Ways of relating to nature

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Understanding of the whole

Viewing

Liberation

Technology

Mastery of nature

Cultural Capital + Economical Capital +

Total Capital +

Total Capital -

The timeless, eternal, which extend beyond the existence of the individual

or of mankind

The boundaries for certain knowledge are constantly challenged

Parts of nature cannot be mastered (yet)

Use in concordance with nature

Natural science

The fields of view on nature

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Example of research

"How is view on nature in elementary and lower secondary school?"

t1 t2t0

Discourse level

Figure of thought level

Basic level

Nature

How do a specific discourse related to nature unfolds?

Construction of the social space, that the discourse takes place within.

➡Description of the agent's practice based on observations, interviews, documental sources etc.

➡Description of the social conditions in which this practice exists

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A changing Social Space - changing groups of agents related to nature

1910 1950 1970

Industry

Liberation, greatness

Natural science

Fishermen Farmers

2000

Migrant workers

Left: Cultural Capital; Right: Economic Capital; Vertical: Total capital

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19101910$

Agriculture*&*Fishery*

Manufacturing*Industries*

Distribu8ve*Trades*

Transport*

Service*sector*

20002000#

Agriculture*&*Fishery*

Manufacturing*Industries*

Distribu8ve*Trades*

Transport*

Service*sector*

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Example of research

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1900

2000

University - Architechs

University - Natural science

Kindergarten

University - Engineering

2003

1910

Industry

Liberation, greatness

Natural science

Fishermen Farmers

Migrant workers

Teachers

University - Agriculture

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