Habitus
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The term "habitus" is the Latin translation of the Greek concept of "hexis" and "hexis" is the theme of Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics". It is related to the concept of Cultural capital proposed by Pierre Bourdieu and the following studies: On the other hand, subjective theories such as Sartre explain actions by reducing them to the subject's will, rational judgment, and conscious purpose. Bourdieu originally used the term "habitus" in its Latin sense, meaning "way of being" or "appearance". Marcel Mauss used it to mean "type of bodily technique". In Bourdieu's work, habitus plays an important mediating role between social structure and the recognition, judgment, and actions that people construct and produce within it. Bourdieu's habitus directs actions and thoughts in everyday life as a system of orientation
By living in a certain order for a certain period of time, people embody a pattern of perception and behavior that is adaptive to that order as a systematic orientation. This is habitus, which can be said to be a social structure that has been embodied.