Habitus selon pierre bourdieu biography

How individuals perceive and react to the social world

In sociology, habitus () is the way that people perceive and respond to the social world they inhabit, by way of their personal habits, skills, and disposition of character.

Overview

People with a common cultural background (social class, religion, and nationality, ethnic group, education, and profession) share a habitus as the way that group culture and personal history shape the mind of a person; consequently, the habitus of a person influences and shapes the social actions of the person.^[1][2]

The sociologist Pierre Bourdieu said that the habitus consists of the hexis, a person's carriage (posture) and speech (accent), and the mental habits of perception, classification, appreciation, feeling, and action.^[2][3] The habitus allows the individual person to consider and resolve problems based upon gut feeling and intuition.

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