Habitus
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IN WHAT WAYS CAN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY HELP US TO UNDERSTAND ISSUES AND EXPERIENCES ENCOUNTERED IN PRACTICE?
INTRODUCTION
This essay is going to discuss two sociological concepts: Habitus and Anomie and further state its relevance in
HABITUS
According to Jones P et al, Habitus is where doxic experiences are stored as series of
memories of how to behave. It is the agent practical or common sense knowledge
about ways of doing things, responding to situations, and understanding what is going on. It is the kind of knowledge we do unconsciously refer to but which we routinely employ. Furthermore this form of understanding covers diverse range of situations from the trivial to mundane ways of eating or talking (Jones P et al 2011). On the other hand Bourdieu sees Habitus as an acquired way of seeing the social world and is dependent on one’s position and upbringing in that world. It is something that belongs to the individual or resides in the self, but which also reflects share and common understandings about the social world. Bourdieu state that even though we think that our taste in clothes and food as uniquely ours, these tastes are simply patterned along social class lines. He say we like what we like not on the basis of individual sensory but as a consequence of what it is we have learned to like or appreciate as a result of the social condition and class culture which we live in or we have been brought up (Dillon M 2010). On the other hand Bourdieu sees one’s habitus as a product of socialization and of social position in a field of social activity while the external world is produced and reproduced through the activities and actions of the individual(Jones P et al 2011). Bourdieu add on to refer habitus as essentially to the everyday tastes and dispositions we actively and literally embody, the relatively enduring schemes of perception, appreciation, and appropriation of the world that we enact(Dillon M 2010). While Bourdieu describes habitus...
INTRODUCTION
This essay is going to discuss two sociological concepts: Habitus and Anomie and further state its relevance in
HABITUS
According to Jones P et al, Habitus is where doxic experiences are stored as series of
memories of how to behave. It is the agent practical or common sense knowledge
about ways of doing things, responding to situations, and understanding what is going on. It is the kind of knowledge we do unconsciously refer to but which we routinely employ. Furthermore this form of understanding covers diverse range of situations from the trivial to mundane ways of eating or talking (Jones P et al 2011). On the other hand Bourdieu sees Habitus as an acquired way of seeing the social world and is dependent on one’s position and upbringing in that world. It is something that belongs to the individual or resides in the self, but which also reflects share and common understandings about the social world. Bourdieu state that even though we think that our taste in clothes and food as uniquely ours, these tastes are simply patterned along social class lines. He say we like what we like not on the basis of individual sensory but as a consequence of what it is we have learned to like or appreciate as a result of the social condition and class culture which we live in or we have been brought up (Dillon M 2010). On the other hand Bourdieu sees one’s habitus as a product of socialization and of social position in a field of social activity while the external world is produced and reproduced through the activities and actions of the individual(Jones P et al 2011). Bourdieu add on to refer habitus as essentially to the everyday tastes and dispositions we actively and literally embody, the relatively enduring schemes of perception, appreciation, and appropriation of the world that we enact(Dillon M 2010). While Bourdieu describes habitus...