Define Bourdieu’s notion of habitus. What is the relationship between habitus and social structure (space)?
What will be an ideal response?
The habitus is a mental filter that structures an individual’s perceptions, experiences, and practices such that the world takes on a taken-for-granted, common-sense appearance. It refers to an individual’s “dispositions” or “mental structures” through which the social world is apprehended and expressed through both verbal and bodily language (Bourdieu 1990a:131). capital. It is these two forms of capital that constitute the “externality” that is internalized via the habitus by forming the social space within which points of view are taken.
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