ABSTRACT This article focuses on Bourdieu’s topological conception of social space to expand on it and develop an alternative model. Bourdieu describes social space as topological because it consists of a set of relative positions. Individuals in similar positions can come together to form social groups, so that differences between groups reveal or at least reflect the different positions in space. For this reason, it is convenient to think of social space as Bourdieu understands it as a space of groups. Yet there are other kinds of geometry beside topology. The article examines the difference between topology and Euclidean geometry to determine how we can modify Bourdieu’s model to uncover other potential features of social space. Rather than conceptualizing social space as a space of groups, we can envision a flow that is created as individuals relay one another so that the flow can go on even though the same individuals never stay put. Flows can arise by finding support on other flows. Thus arise structures in space that cannot be ‘mapped onto’ social actors occupying different positions because actors only sustain the flows through their perpetual turnover.

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超空间中的布迪厄：从社会拓扑到流动空间

摘要 本文重点关注布迪厄的社会空间拓扑概念，以对其进行扩展并开发一种替代模型。布迪厄将社会空间描述为拓扑的，因为它由一组相对位置组成。处于相似位置的个体可以聚集在一起形成社会群体，从而群体之间的差异揭示或至少反映了空间中的不同位置。出于这个原因，可以方便地将社会空间视为布尔迪厄所理解的群体空间。然而，除了拓扑之外，还有其他类型的几何。本文考察了拓扑学和欧几里得几何学之间的差异，以确定我们如何修改布迪厄的模型以揭示社会空间的其他潜在特征。与其将社会空间概念化为群体空间，我们可以设想一种流程，它是随着个人相互传递而创建的，这样即使同一个人永远不会原地踏步，流程也可以继续。流量可以通过寻找对其他流量的支持而产生。因此，空间中出现的结构无法“映射到”占据不同位置的社会行动者，因为行动者只能通过他们的永久更替来维持流动。