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Social Quantum Field Theory (SQFT) Ver.1

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  Formalizing Social Quantum Field Theory: Filling the Relational Gap in Bourdieu's Field Theory through Quantum Field Analogies Abstract This paper proposes a formal extension to a long-standing theoretical gap in Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social fields. While Bourdieu introduced the concept of  habitus  to explain how social structures become embodied within individuals, his framework provides only limited formal tools for explaining how a field exerts simultaneous, nonlocal structural influence across multiple agents. Drawing upon conceptual frameworks from Quantum Field Theory (QFT) and Projective Measurement Collapse, this study reinterprets the relationship between agents and social fields through the notions of  local excitations  and  entangled states . Within this framework, agents are no longer treated as independent containers of habitus but are instead modeled as localized excitations of an underlying social field. Moments of social crisis are...
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Social Quantum Field Theory (SQFT) Ver.2

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  Formalizing Relational Sociology Beyond Bourdieu's Field Theory A Quantum Field–Inspired Framework for Social Relations, Structural Collapse, and Topological Transformation Abstract This paper proposes Social Quantum Field Theory (SQFT) as a formal conceptual framework for extending the relational foundations of Pierre Bourdieu's field theory. Bourdieu's sociology achieved a major theoretical breakthrough by demonstrating that social reality cannot be reduced to isolated individuals. Through the concepts of field , capital , and habitus , Bourdieu showed that individual practices emerge from historically structured relational environments. However, a persistent theoretical difficulty remains: how does a social field generate coordinated effects across multiple actors simultaneously? How can a shared structure influence individuals beyond direct interaction, communication, or conscious intention? To address this question, this paper introduces a quantum field–inspired for...
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