Habitus (sociology)
In sociology, habitus (/ˈhæbɪtəs/) 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.
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[edit]- The habitus comprises a set of generative schemes that produce practices and representations that are regular without reference to overt rules and that are goal directed without requiring conscious selection of goals or mastery of methods of achieving them...
- Bentley, G. C, 1987 Ethnicity and practice. Comparative Studies in Society and History 29,24-55. (Bentley 1987:36).
