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Paradigmatic Paradigm Problems: Theory Issues In Amish Studies, Steven Reschly
Paradigmatic Paradigm Problems: Theory Issues In Amish Studies, Steven Reschly
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies
Scholars of Amish history and culture, and scholars of Anabaptist and Anabaptist-descent groups more generally, have not engaged consistently or productively with mainstream theoretical developments in social and cultural studies. The phrase used most often in Amish Studies, “negotiating with modernity,” has limited usefulness because of its abstractions and time restrictions. A viable alternative rises from the research and writings of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who formulated Habitus and Field as terms to theorize about the interaction of internal and external in human experience, perhaps the oldest and thorniest issue in the social sciences. Reformulated for more general use as …