This chapter re-engages with Bourdieu’s canonical model of class relationsClass relations and his primary quantitative methodology of multiple correspondence analysisMultiple correspondence analysis. The chapter contributes to knowledge about the changed and sustained patterns of class relationsClass relations in Australia over time. Two waves of data (with ten years apart) were drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. A dataset of 419 complete cases with value across all the selected 20 variables in both waves enabled the longitudinal analysis of class relationsClass relations in Australia. Educational and social inequalities were found as a sustained pattern of class relationsClass relations while there were marked changes in class dynamics over ten years’ time. Class relationsClass relations were found within a multidimensional space of classifications at the intersection of education, occupation, migration, language, and ethnicity. The chapter responds to the moribund position of multiple correspondence analysisMultiple correspondence analysis in Bourdieusian sociology of education, and complicates the linear class models (e.g., from working class to upper class) prevalent in existing literature. It adds migration, language, and geography to the map of class relationsClass relations in Australia. In so doing, the chapter resonates with Bourdieu that class does not exist as a real social category but unfolds within a differentiating space of classifications.

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A Longitudinal Study of Class Relations in Australia: A Bourdieusian Multiple Correspondence Analysis

  • Guanglun Michael Mu

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This chapter re-engages with Bourdieu’s canonical model of class relationsClass relations and his primary quantitative methodology of multiple correspondence analysisMultiple correspondence analysis. The chapter contributes to knowledge about the changed and sustained patterns of class relationsClass relations in Australia over time. Two waves of data (with ten years apart) were drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. A dataset of 419 complete cases with value across all the selected 20 variables in both waves enabled the longitudinal analysis of class relationsClass relations in Australia. Educational and social inequalities were found as a sustained pattern of class relationsClass relations while there were marked changes in class dynamics over ten years’ time. Class relationsClass relations were found within a multidimensional space of classifications at the intersection of education, occupation, migration, language, and ethnicity. The chapter responds to the moribund position of multiple correspondence analysisMultiple correspondence analysis in Bourdieusian sociology of education, and complicates the linear class models (e.g., from working class to upper class) prevalent in existing literature. It adds migration, language, and geography to the map of class relationsClass relations in Australia. In so doing, the chapter resonates with Bourdieu that class does not exist as a real social category but unfolds within a differentiating space of classifications.