Habitus

Non-sociological uses Body habitus Body habitus (or "bodily habitus") is the medical term for physique, and is categorized as either endomorphic (overweight), ectomorphic (underweight) or mesomorphic (normal weight).

Out of habitus comes field, the manner in which one integrates and displays his or her habitus.

The Use of Habitus in Literary Theory Bourdieu’s principle of habitus is interwoven with the concept of structuralism in literary theory.

According to Bourdieu, habitus refers to the social context within which a social actor is socialized.

Assessment of posture and body habitus is the next step.

At convert, the juvenile krill resembles the habitus of the adults.

General habitus and shape of body and face, as well as sex hormone levels, are similar in prepubertal male and female children.

Habitus make different differences; they implement distinctions between what is good and what is bad, what is right and what is wrong, between what is distinguished and what is vulgar, and so on, but they are not the same.

He argues that Kant's "aesthetic" merely represents an experience that is the product of an elevated class habitus and scholarly leisure as opposed to other possible and equally valid "aesthetic" experiences which lay outside Kant's narrow definition.

Mauss defined habitus as those aspects of culture that are anchored in the body or daily practices of individuals, groups, societies, and nations.

Pierre Bourdieu argued that the reproduction of the social structure results from the habitus of individuals (Bourdieu, 1987).

Pierre Bourdieu ’s notion of ‘ habitus ’ can also contribute to the understanding of manners.

Social agents act according to their "feel for the game" (the "feel" being, roughly, habitus, and the "game" being the field ).

Thus, the habitus represents the way group culture and personal history shape the body and the mind, and as a result, shape social action in the present.