Summary Of Habitus By Bourdieu

Bourdieu’s work focuses a lot of overcoming social dichotomies. For example, Habitus and Field, Body and Mind and Macro and Macro. Habitus and Field are two co-terms which are used to explain the subjective and objective aspects of humanity, (Hardy, 2008, p. 214). We also examine Bourdieu’s three forms of capital. It is important to note that capital is not solely focused on economic capital. We focussed a lot of attention on cultural capital and the three typologies faced within cultural capital. Moving on from this, we examine symbolic violence and the presence it has in everyday life. We observe the role of the state and capital. Bourdieu emphasises the fact that the subordinate groups are responsible for giving symbolic capital to the dominant groups, e.g. the state, thus allowing the dominant groups to enforce symbolic violence on the subordinate groups. Hysteresis and Doxa are also two important thinking tools when analysing Bourdieu’s work.
Lecture 2 The Concept of Habitus
Habitus is identified as a relational concept tool. We don’t live as individuals. We live in accordance with our environment. Three particular terms …show more content…
It involves three individual typologies; embodied, objectified and institutionalised, (Bourdieu, 1986, p. 47). The embodied state, e.g. your walk, is unique to every individual. The objectified state includes material things such as books and paintings. The institutionalised state then refers to academic qualifications. Both embodied and objectified cultural capital are interlinked. E.g. you can own a book and quote from it, but without embodied the knowledge to actually understand it at your own level, it is worthless to you, (Bourdieu, 1986, p. 50). The institutionalized state then formalizes the fact that no matter how much intelligence you possess, it does not count for anything unless you have the degree to prove it, (Bourdieu, 1986, p.