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Rethinking Role Residual: Retired Police Officers and the Inertia of Habitus
Author(s) -
Parnaby Patrick,
Weston Crystal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
canadian review of sociology/revue canadienne de sociologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.414
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1755-618X
pISSN - 1755-6171
DOI - 10.1111/cars.12278
Subject(s) - habitus , clarity , inscribed figure , extant taxon , epistemology , field (mathematics) , residual , phenomenon , intersection (aeronautics) , interpretation (philosophy) , sociology , social psychology , psychology , social science , computer science , engineering , mathematics , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , geometry , algorithm , evolutionary biology , cultural capital , pure mathematics , biology , programming language , aerospace engineering
In this paper, we bring conceptual clarity to the literature on “role residual.” Based on the extant literature and our own research involving police retirees, we first delineate three empirical variants of role residual: emotional, cognitive, and behavioral. We then make the case that a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon requires a theoretical framework capable of conceptualizing role residual in a way that is consistent with a broader theory of practice. To that end, we use Bourdieu's work to argue that role residual comprises states of being or behavior that occur at the intersection of (a) schemas and dispositions inscribed in the habitus as a result of one's prior role‐specific orientation to the field, and (b) a configuration of proximate conditions in the present that is sufficiently similar to what one would have experienced while in one's prior role.