This Interlude, positioned between Chaps.  3 and 5 , serves as a transition between two different exploratory quantitative methodologies, namely, Multiple Correspondence Analysis (Chap.  3 ) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) (Chap.  5 ). The Interlude begins with a thorough review of Bourdieu’s critiques of network thinking, highlighting the distinction that he drew between his relational approach to field analysis and the interactional thinking in network analysis. While acknowledging the qualitative differences between relational analysis and traditional SNA models, the Interlude offers a Bourdieusian rebuttal to Bourdieu’s rebuttal of network analysis. By applying Bourdieu’s own relational principles, it challenges his critique and argues for methodological common ground between Bourdieusian relational analysis and modern SNA methodology. Given the underutilisation of SNA in Bourdieusian sociology of education, the Interlude provides a snapshot of existing applications of the methodology in Bourdieusian educational research. This sets the stage for Chap.  5 , which empirically examines children’s social groupings using SNA.