Pierre Bourdieu's Habitus

The social power of Pierre Bourdieu’s habitus can simply be described as a manifested system of tastes where our actions are guided by structure but individuals have the agency or “freewill” to make our own choices. Consciously and unconsciously, we as individuals internalize elements for our social distinctions, dispositions, and an ideology that is going through a constant dialectical battle between structure and agency. “The way society gets inside of us” essentially depicts Bourdieu’s view on habitus which shows that society ultimately places constraints on an individual. Distinctive taste in cultural aspects such as food, fashion, mannerisms, or even our “choices” in entertainment we have been prescribed a social structure in determining …show more content…
Censorship or the ability to withhold information only demonstrates how television and the media only show what they want an individual to see and know. An infringement of knowledge is breached, as an individual does not gain close to nothing by their television experience. Journalism and producers essentially looks for the most newsworthy aspect of the topic and place it in the program for dramatization causing a construction of reality or a “hyper reality” to be formed. Even if an individual attempts to find another channel to watch, everything on television is virtually picked, trimmed to fit a commodified time slot for a viewer’s consumption. Merely to keep most of the population at a certain level. Another example would be his description of the Olympics on television as a false representation of what the games really are. He argues that there are two Olympics, the one being played and one being televised. With the aid of capitalistic interventions the alternation of the Olympics can be given to companies funding the sport, where …show more content…
No one is essentially born free in which people are conditions and have constraints placed on them since birth. For instance, on a more local and modern level, social media, something people ultimately think they have complete control over. However, individuals have to make an account using the guidelines provided by the manufacturer and forcibly have to abide by them in efforts to connect with and meet new people on a virtual level. In addition, any violation of these guidelines will result in an individual being banned from a website or being reprimanded for their actions for going against the norms and regulations of their preferred social base. Social Media may keep people entertained it also keeps people at the same level while it offers little to opportunity for social mobility, so the social hierarchy is still