habitus

Examples

• All

• Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical concept "habitus" allows us to view professional development from a different angle.

  Academic text (2004)

• One participant made sense of his habitus by reflecting on experiences of compulsory education.

  Academic text (2015)

• However, it would be wrong to see the student's habitus as unaffected by the time spent on the course.

  Academic text (2015)

• Here, the notion of a primary and secondary habitus explains how dominated social groups are disadvantaged at school.

  Academic text (2015)

• The habitus and dispositions of the AHE students reflected their complex personal lives.

  Academic text (2015)

• In conclusion, habitus is open to possibilities and potentials rather than fixed certainties.

  Academic text (2015)

• Her comment indicated that one's socialization, habitus, and embodiment are equally important in the contest.

  Academic text (2005)

• At least four of the seven non-philanthropists experienced Protestant Christianity in the formative habitus periods of their lives.

  Academic text (1998)

• The women in this study offer cogent examples of improvisation as a facet of individual habitus.

  Academic text (2011)

• His effort to move us toward a new imaginative politics and a new habitus trenchantly prods and inspires.

Synonyms

M

mindset

vshabitus

150 4.3

A usual way of thinking that affects how a person acts

includes those thinking patterns plus broader habits and attitudes from experience

H

habitude

vshabitus

9.9

A regular way that a person behaves often without thinking

emphasises mental habits and attitudes formed by background and experience

Antonyms

N

nonconformity

2 7.7

Not following accepted social and religious rules

U

unconventionality

1 7.5

Doing things in a new or unusual way

How Ingrained

worldview

141 4.4

habitus

• Specialized

1 9.5

disposition

43 4.6

habit

630 1.0

preference

157 2.1

Surface Forms

Etymology