Pierre Bourdieu

Outline of a theory of practice

Tr. by R. Nice.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press1977 [1972].

 

habitus: one definition

disposition inculcated in the earliest years of life and constantly reinforced by calls to order from the group, that is to say, from the aggregate of the individuals endowed with the same dispositions, to whom each is linked by his dispositions and interests" (p. 14-15).  

another definition

 

(p. 82-83)

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