The summum of the art, in the social sciences, is … to be capable of engaging very high “theoretical stakes” by means of very precise and often apparently very mundane, if not derisory, empirical objects (Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1992, p. 220).
Bourdieu, P., & Wacquant, L.J.D (1992). An invitation to reflexive sociology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.