The obstacles can be categorized in three categories, thus stressing the wide range of aspects: epistemological and cognitive difficulties, sociological and cultural difficulties and didactical difficulties (de Guzmán et al. 1998).
While intended to overcome typical sociological dichotomies/binaries including that of agency versus determinism, the difficulty for Bourdieu is that if the habitus (as a 'system' for how individuals perceive the world) resides below the consciousness (1989, pp. 14 19), how is it possible for an individual to be other than a determined product of their habitus?
It is also accepted that sociological factors contribute to the transmission of infectious diseases, but difficulty in quantifying the importance of these social networks on individual and household behaviors persists [ 31].
Similar difficulties torpedo other explanations that rely on a "sociological" scenario.
On the one hand, she wants to suggest that the difficulties she encountered as First Lady are part of a broader sociological phenomenon: our continuing discomfort with women in power.
To assess the level of public knowledge on the key issues as well as basic difficulties encountered while rendering support to young children and pregnant women, a sociological opinion poll was conducted among 1,700 pregnant women and 1,740 young mothers having infants under one year of age.
Wright seems to have recognized this difficulty partway through "Native Son," and to have responded by giving his work a sociological turn.
8 Community-based studies of MSM present great challenges, namely when it comes to defining a sampling frame, 9 due to the clear difficulty in establishing the boundaries of the target population itself because of cultural, anthropological and sociological reasons.
And it makes a special difficulty for the kind of explanations and accounts of religion that I find most convincing, ie the sociological view that religion is a way in which society learns to understand itself.
The influence of contemporary sociology of science and social studies of science, coupled with the difficulties methodologists have had making sense of and rationalizing the conduct of economics, have led to a sociological turn within methodological reflection itself.
