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and practical value, answer is both micro and macro.
scientific questions, and help According to Bourdieu,
to solve social problems. sociology is an empirical
Considering and based on matter that is a dynamic
Bourdieu’s ontological assumptions, combination of action and
which is a materialistic view, opinion, experience, and reasoning.
it is obvious that his Bourdieu’s methodology consists
epistemological basis was of certain characteristics
also based on scientism, and including that the insight and
in terms of perceptual tools, method are more compatible
only sensory tools were used. with the subject that should
Not only does Bourdieu be used.
have no opinion on the On the other hand, the
intellectual issues of revelation, results obtained by using
holiness, and intuition; But his different methods should be
proposed reason is based only compared together to finally
on rationalism, as minimum get a correct and logical
layers of reason, while he understanding of it.
institutionalized his Cultural Additionally, Bourdieu believes
Capital on this basis. that after finding a certain
result, the social researcher
• Methodology should go back to the past and
According to his integrated look carefully at the process
vision, Bourdieu has used through which he reached this
multiple quantitative and conclusion to minimize
qualitative methods, seeking- possible errors.
cause and seeking-meaning. Bourdieu also believed that
Therefore, we can talk about if the sociologist has a
him as a methodical pluralist. scholastic approach detached
His unit of observation is from reality, s/he will suffer
both the individual and the from some kind of prejudice
social, and his level of analysis
