1. See especially P. Bourdieu, La Distinction. Critique social du jugement (Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1979) and P. Bourdieu, Homo Academicus (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1988). See also J. Rupp and R. de Lange,“Social Order, Cultural Capital and Citizenship” The Sociological Review, 37 (1989), pp. 668–705, and R. de Lange, “Internal Communication: A Field Analysis,” Newsletter European Association of Public Relations Education and Research, 2 (1994), p. 13. This last project was presented at the International Public Relations Research Symposium at Bled, Slovenia in 1994.
2. In analytical terms Bourdieu’s concept champ (field) can be defined as a network or configuration of objective relations between positions.
3. With special thanks to my colleague S. van der Wee, who is doing her Ph. D. dissertation on this subject. Her study focuses on the medical profession. Here the items were“translated” to the field of PA.
4. See A. de Swaan, Zorg en de Staat (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1989)
5. For a recent comparative analysis of stratification models see B. F. M. Bakker and A. Blees-Booij,“Verklaren twee meer dan een?” in J. Dronkers and W. C. Ultee (eds.), Verschuivende Ongelijkheid in Nederland. Sociale Gelaagdheid en Mobiliteit (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1995), pp. 247–265.