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Habitus refers to the set of ingrained habits and dispositions that people generally learn from the society surrounding them.
Habitus Quotes in Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
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Chapter 6
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Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence has proven especially helpful for my understanding of the ways in which the order of inequalities described thus far has become unquestioned and unchallenged, even by those most oppressed. Symbolic violence is the naturalization, including internalization, of social asymmetries. Bourdieu explains that we experience the world through doxa (mental schemata) and habitus (historically accreted bodily comportments) that are issued forth from that very social world and, therefore, make the social order—including its hierarchies—appear natural. Thus we misrecognize oppression as natural because it fits our mental and bodily schemata through which we perceive it. […] Symbolic violence acts within the process of perception, hidden from the conscious mind.
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Chapter 2: “We Are Field Workers”: Embodied Anthropology of Migration
...specifically values privacy over comfort. This illustrates how people’s social and economic groups influence their habitus, or the ingrained bodily dispositions and preferences they learn and adopt throughout their lives.
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Chapter 7: Conclusion: Change, Pragmatic Solidarity, and Beyond
...structural and symbolic violence. Specifically, social structures give people certain kinds of bodily habits (or habitus) and certain systems of symbolic meaning (including “metaphors, stereotypes, meanings, connotations”). Then, these habits and...
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