The world continues to lurch from crisis to crisis. Amidst environmental decline, growing disparities in wealth and social dislocation, a minority of the world’s population ironically prosper while the silent majority struggle to maintain basic standards of economic and social well-being. Social workers are compelled to respond to societal issues such as these but need theories to make sense of disparities in lived experience and life outcomes. Responding to this necessity, some social work scholars have drawn on Pierre Bourdieu’s meta-theory to explain social injustice and guide anti-oppressive practice. While this growing corpus of work is encouraging, further critical appraisal of Bourdieu’s work is required. In this article, we identify a gap in Bourdieu’s meta-theory: the relative inattention to human affect and how it connects with his formative concepts of ‘habitus’, ‘field’ and ‘capital’. This focus on human affect is salutary given its centrality in social work practice. To address this gap, we proffer some tentative thoughts about the nature of ‘affective habitus’, ‘affective fields’ and ‘affective capital’. The implications of these enriched concepts for social work are finally considered.

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回应“世界的重量”：揭示社会工作中的“感觉”布迪厄

世界继续从危机到危机。在环境恶化、财富差距日益扩大和社会混乱的情况下，具有讽刺意味的是，世界上少数人的繁荣昌盛，而沉默的大多数人却在努力维持经济和社会福祉的基本标准。社会工作者被迫对诸如此类的社会问题作出回应，但需要理论来理解生活经历和生活结果的差异。针对这种必要性，一些社会工作学者借鉴了皮埃尔布迪厄的元理论来解释社会不公正并指导反压迫实践。虽然这个不断增长的工作语料库令人鼓舞，但需要对布迪厄的工作进行进一步的批判性评价。在本文中，我们确定了布迪厄元理论中的一个空白：对人类情感的相对疏忽，以及它如何与他形成的“惯习”、“场域”和“资本”概念联系起来。鉴于其在社会工作实践中的中心地位，这种对人类情感的关注是有益的。为了解决这一差距，我们对“情感习性”、“情感场”和“情感资本”的性质提出了一些初步的思考。最后考虑了这些丰富的概念对社会工作的影响。