![]() ![]() This baseline methodology will be compared with other possibilities. In this context, a canonical analysis of ordinal variables in the frame proposed by the Gifi group appears very appropriate. The challenge that we will face is to find a methodology that respects as well a comparative perspective and the constraints of the homology perspective. ![]() ![]() The availability of the ISSP Leisure and Sport module (2007) offers a unique opportunity to assess the bourdieusian thesis in a context of more than twenty countries from all around the world. Moreover, the bulk of contributions within the context of the sociology of culture have focused on particular national cases, usually within Western Countries. However, he never attempted to do such analysis. Bourdieu wondered whether his analysis of French society could be generalized to other cases such as the United states, Germany or even other countries as distant as Japan (Bourdieu, 1991). This idea is at the centre of Pierre Bourdieu’s work La Distinction (1984) and all of the studies in the sociology of culture that follow this seminal opus. The so-called homology thesis contends that a strong relationship exists between social position and cultural practices. ![]()
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