Talk:Habitus (sociology)

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Does anyone else feel like this article is very difficult to read. I think it probably makes sense to those who already understand it, but IMO it could use some re-writing to make it more clear.
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I didn't find this usefull at all.  After reading it, I know about the history of the idea and nothing about the idea itself.
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"The concept of habitus is foundational to Bourdieu’s theory of social research. Bourdieu combined a structuralist framework with close attention to subjectivity in social context. A key relationship in bridging objectivism and subjectivism in social research, for Bourdieu, is that between habitus and field via practices." 
What on earth are you talking about?  This is the most intelligible sentence in the article and it is meaningless.  What is a habitus?  That's the question the title of article is supposed to answer. Give us some examples of habituses (habiti?).  How many kinds are there?  Where do they occur?   How does one kind change into another kind?  Bourdieu is a very famous professor.  Don't shroud his work in jargon. - Pepper 150.203.227.130 09:31, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What ? 

message: This particular nuance of the usage for the term may be recent, but the term is common in Thomas Aquinas and may, for all I know about the history of philosophy, be all over the place much earlier.  I am fairly sure that Aquinas's usage is a Latin translation (all the word literally means is "habit") from an Aristotelian term from the ethical works. --MichaelTinkler
:Do you have any references for this? If so we can put it in the article. JenLouise 00:03, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  origin of term 

message: Based on some of the comments above, and my own knowledge of the concept (which is yes primarily from Bourdieu) I am going to try and work on this article a bit. I'd welcome any suggestions or help. JenLouise 23:56, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reworking article 

message: Could some kind soul please do a Simple English version of this page? This article is really esoteric crap at the moment and I say that as a guy with a PhD in a waffly Arts subject. It needs to be explained to us, simply. 86.44.43.208 (talk) 04:31, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simple English 

message: Just for the record, I am deleting the section titled "Habitus and economic success." It's terribly written, contains incomplete sentences and incomplete thoughts, and the original version defined "inhomogeneous" as "having lots of similarities." I think it was a subtle bit of vandalism, but even if not, it should be deleted. If you want to restore it, check the source and rewrite it in complete sentences! 24.238.113.245 (talk) 16:38, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleting Habitus and economic success 

message: 'Body habitus can  be understood ...' implies that there is a choice, as if it were possible, for example, to understand 'body habitus' as a double-decker bus. If modal verb is required here, then 'must'. In fact, the sentence is much better off without one. 'Body habitus is understood, scil. by all who deal with and have knowledge of the subject, ... ' Pamour (talk) 08:50, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  body habitus 

message: As for the rest of Bourdieu's vocabulary, habitus is not a "given" but a "constructed" concept, dependent on a certain cultural context and personal issues of the author, i.e. the "rebellion" and "revisionist" and "neo-marxist" era of the 1960s, his split with Aron, etc. To put it simply, habitus is not a scientific concept proven right, but a hypothesis based on Bourdieu's deterministic vision of society, something to take with extreme care.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.66.207.6 (talk) 06:36, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critics 

message: Often really intellegent people cannot write simplified explanations for complex ideas. Very excellent introduction, but unduly complex.
I simplified the first paragraph to appeal to a larger lay audience. 
:Habitus is ingrained habits, skills, and dispositions.  It is the way that individuals perceive the social world around them and react to it. These dispositions are usually shared by people with similar backgrounds (such as social class, religion, nationality, ethnicity, education, profession etc.). The habitus is acquired through imitation (mimesis) and is the reality that individuals are socialized which includes their individual experience and opportunities. Thus, the habitus represents the way group culture and personal history shape the body and the mind, and as a result, shape present social actions of an individual.
:Lizardo, O. 2004, "The cognitive origins of Bourdieu's Habitus", Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 375-448.
Moscowdreams (talk) 08:46, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Simplified first paragraph