For most social scientists outside France, multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is familiar from, and was made popular by, the works of Pierre Bourdieu, especially the analysis and presentation of the social space of lifestyles in Distinction (Bourdieu 2000). Whereas in French sociology l–analyse des données represents a well-established procedure in statistics, this is still not the case in German sociology. Consequently, the topic of our contribution consists of an analysis of the partial establishment of MCA in German language sociology curricula.
For most social scientists outside France, multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is familiar from, and was made popular by, the works of Pierre Bourdieu, especially the analysis and presentation of the social space of lifestyles in Distinction (Bourdieu 2000). Whereas in French sociology l–analyse des données represents a well-established procedure in statistics, this is still not the case in German sociology. Consequently, the topic of our contribution consists of an analysis of the partial establishment of MCA in German language sociology curricula.