Commissions of inquiry as ritual: Bourdieu, the marquis and the Endowed Schools of Ireland, 1854-58

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Recent concerns in Ireland with memorialisation and cultural nationalism facilitate a sociological appraisal of the unjustly neglected Kildare Commission on Endowed Schools, 1854-58. Uniquely, it was an exercise in modernisation and rationalisation of cultural capital set to supply hope to Irish Protestants in the post-Famine era. The sociological significance of the Commission lies in the understandings it offers of the link between print culture, Blue Books (parliamentary inquiries) and politics; Bourdieu's notion of informational capital; and Weber's interest in social inquiries as checks on bureaucratic power. The fieldwork of the inquiry had ritual and quasi-ethnographic properties which systematically brought to light the hidden social conditions of these schools.View full textDownload full textKeywordscultural nationalism, print culture, informational capital, rationality, ritualRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2011.593370