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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:
Public Affairs in sociology
Marcel Mauss's research in cultural anthropology
When explaining the generation of social action and the regularity in which it appears, objective social theories such as Habitus and cultural capital and structuralism reduce actions to structures that exist objectively, such as norms, to explain them.
On the other hand, subjective theories such as Sartre explain actions by reducing them to the subject's will, rational judgment, and conscious purpose.
What is Habitus? From meaning to concrete examples | Liberal Arts Guide
Pierre Bourdieu's habitus
Mauss's habitus is a type of bodily technique
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.
Success as habitus
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.
Sociality as a habit seen in class habitus
Marcel Mauss's habitus
Habitus and structure
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