Introduction to Bourdieu: Habitus
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- In this introduction to Pierre Bourdieu, I look at a number of his key concepts: Habitus, Field & Cultural Capital, while focusing primarily on habitus. First I contextualize Bourdieu's sociology in the debates between structuralism, existentialism, and postmodernism. I look at how Bourdieu can help us understand emotions, class and children's health inequalities.
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Ed by. Michael Grenfell, Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts
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Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice
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Watching this instead of doing my readings because I procrastinated too long. Awesome video, thank you!
Watching this because my brain just failed to comprehend the text by itself. Sometimes someone else explaining helps better🍌
"I'm in this comment and I don't like it"
me two😅
You're not procrastinating you're doing side quests.
@@mammi7699 I heard some professors talking about doing this on a podcast so its totally normal to not read the “right” way . Its one of the dirty little secrets of academia it seems ;)
An aspect of habitus that is not develloped there and that differences it from habit is that habitus is the internalization of social structures: We unconsciously internalize the social disparities and inequalities in the social world in a way that depends mostly of our social class. This leads to forgetting that inequalities are a product of history but are rather seen as something evident, natural (particularily in the USA): "He got good grades or a good social position because he's smart, talented, hard-worker, etc..." without interrogating the social conditions that permit to be (and be seen as) smart, hard-worker, etc... It also supposes that we internalized that having a diploma is better that not having one, etc... In that way we accept domination in a certain regard, that's why there is a relative stability of the society and its structures: people that are dominated doesn't revolt all the time against the domination they udergo, particularily economic domination. The salary man accept, without even thinking about it, that he has to obey to the owner: but this relation of obedience isn't "natural", it's the product of a social history. That's what Bourdieu calls "symbolic violence".
I'm always amazed to see how americans political discourses almost completely ignore the question of social classes by focusing on the merits or wrongdoings of the individual (the myth of the self-made man is really so fucking present in mentalities, particularily in the right but also in the left). Like the problem with the poor is that he didn't work well enough, or the problem is a bunch of crazy billionnaires that controls everything, or they're billionaire cause they have talent so it's ok, etc... Or, on an other hand, the problem with racism or sexism is only a question of individual bias : like discrimination is only in the head of the dominant that uses it to oppress. Domination is primarily structural, and not only inter-subjective. The left in campuses tend to forget that, focusing on individual behaviours and discourses (hello online shaming) rather than thinking about socio-economic disparities and ask for structural changes like free education, health-care, higher salariesandbasicquality of life (they also do, don't get me wrong).
This society is so fucking violent, like anybody can become anything if he wants to, work hard, have a vision and pursue their dream, but forget in the same movement that the objective chances of atteigning a prestigious social status are so unequal: the individual only have himself to blame for his failures (hello depression, exponentially growing since the decomposition of welfare state and neoliberal policies). This got me depressed, seeing people fucking arguing between Trump and Joe Biden, like it's something that is going to change anything for people...
So, habitus = interpellation?
bro, you just said the whole habitus consept. if this is not developed there , then what is it hahaha. I am thinking if i wanna watch it now, also his voice is not so clear for not native english speakers. Anyways, nice text , i really liked it.
This was one of the best YT comments I've ever come across.
By far the best introductory discussion of his work that I've come across! You really manage to highlight the most important stuff, well done.
You're videos have helped me revisit a lot of my college classes. I studied Bourdieu as a freshman and in many ways it led to me majoring in sociology. Thank you for all you're hard work. Looking forward to becoming a patron asap.
Gotta love when a short simple vid clears up many of the questions you had.
This is an extremely cool and understandable explanation of the meaning of habitus, thank you!!!
Thanks for this! The quote at 7:34 is actually by Durkheim. Bourdieu quotes it in Outline of a Theory of Practice.
One of the most useful explanations of Bourdieu I’ve seen.
Great Video! Succintly and eloquently articulated the essence of his work.
You deserve much more then 22k subscribers.
And much more than 97.5k !
Now 220k lol. That's a 1000% gain
I came across, what I think, is the best definition of the habitus :
- embodied history, internalized as a second nature and so forgotten as history - is the active presence of the whole past of which it is the product.
This gets to the heart of the excessive egotistical claims of the existentialists as well as the enormous guilt it produces in people that fail to recognise the role of the “invisible hand” played by the habitus!!!
İs there any way to break this habitus? Any sample?
Got to watch this for sociological theory. Great work! I found myself tying in the dramaturgical effect along with various other keywords and nuances.
A great video, and your links have proven invaluable for my thesis. Many thanks!
Thanks for this, I love the way you string images together! Helps me process somehow. My favorite part was the pondering question mark boy.
Thanks for your video! I might use Bourdieu for my thesis about habermas because of it (not a lot). One tip: a longer pause at the end of the video would give a better ring to your last words and leaves more room to think. I now am scared away immediallty because Im still pondering what you said.
great video! very informational, amazing graphics, and an overall great narrator!
I absolutely love your videos. I see an overlap between his and Foucaults ideas in some respect. The philosophical ideas you're sharing of world class original thinkers sets u apart from other YT channels. These ideas are truly revolutionary if one seriously sits down and contemplates. Felix Revisson might be another philosophee u might want to cover. He talks about habit too but in nature. Thanks once again for such an enlightening video 🙏
Foucault seems to hold the resolution to our dislocation from society and time, but at the eminence of becoming end of time unless it’s understood differently, without final immolation
Thank you so much for this! So much clearer and very helpful for uni!
Great introduction to this man - made me want to seek out his work further!
This is a very good overview of habitus. Nice one. Thanks for uploading. 👍
Thanks for the video which helped me alot to understand the concept of Habitus.
Really good video. My sociology professor would say that action we have in terms of Habitus is “Regulated/Ordinated Improvisation”.
The explanation and edit is beautifully down. Thank you for the clear explanation!
Working on my diss, which is heavily Bourdieu influenced. This is really nicely done.
let me know when you release your diss track!
This video engages with the concept wonderfully !
This is great. Very nice introduction to the concept.
I am excited! Excellent treatment of Bourdieu's critical concepts!
beautifully explained man, subscribed
Excellent as always
Excellent presentation of Bourdieu’s ideas
2:00 - Context
9:35 - Difference between habitus & habit ?
Thanks for your quality videos !
Great video - helped to consolidate my understanding of Bourdieu!
great video! Very informative !
This is so useful, thank you!
great info, but i find myself trying to determine the connections between the content and the royalty-free images being shown and it's a bit distracting. so i listened without the video. very informative!
Nicely produced video and clearly articulated, thanks!
B. was a big part of my PhD (unfinished) about taste, so this is a fun trip back down memory lane
Pick it back up and finish or still write and publish your work!
@@jaxlady32224 Mum? 😂
Y'know I just might.
Great channel, it's about time sociology got some love on TH-cam
absolutely.
This helped a lot...thank you
Anyone interested in the section on children and their class Habitus effect on socioeconomic outcomes, I recommend a wonderful ethnography by Paul Willis called Learning to Labor. Fascinating.
Great vid!
Thanks, this helped a lot with my exam.
So to my understanding, it can be simplified as the internalisation, understanding and subconscious adherence to social norms and patterns
Helpful for my final!
Great! So precise and clear
Thank you for this. 😊
I invented the phrase and concept of “Habitus Possession”, last night, and today I found out that Boudieux had done it first.
P.S Carl Jung’s concept of “spirit of the age” is synonymous to the concept of Habitus possession. I recommend reading up on that.
Also, read Rape of The Mind by Joost Meerlo.
do you have one on anthony Giddens? i prefer his constructivism cause it links micro and macro structures
Thank you - he is a favorite!
This is fab - thank you
Good video. As a language nerd I have to point out that the plural of “habitus” is “habitus”
your voice is so good for these videos lmao
That dancer in the background 10:30 was shuffeling it like a rave dancer. Now I know where the rave dancers got their movements from.
Nice introduction and understood alot🤩🤩🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Congratulations! Eventually, I understood the habitus meaning.
What do you think about the Sinuns Milieu Model?
I love this video.
Thanks!
Very cool
Hi the plural of habitus is habitus.
If it's possible to add subtitles, I would like to translate it into Turkish.
can i just point out social class is not actually define by bourdieu? or does he? does he define working middle ect or just speak about capital?
Thanks
Was Bourdieu or any other sociologist interested in the ways people enforce or encourage adherence to habiti?For instance, I imagine there are rewards, either subtle or unsubtle, for conforming to the standard set of habiti, and punishments for deviating from them.
Foucault's Discipline & Punish
Erving Goffman- a lot of overlaps with Bourdieu's theory of practice.
In broad strokes, I agree Foucault's 'Discipline & Punish' is good, so is Goffman.
For more a abstract and thorough take, I really like Berger & Luckmann' s' The Social Construction of Reality'. It really shows how the very basis of what counts as knowledge is the result of patterns of practice and typification, which always bring about a disciplinary apparatus as well; you can't rely on official knowledge if people are coloring outside the lines. Knowledge always presupposes power, which is a matter of social structure, social relationships.
Hello! A random question, may I ask what's the accent you are speaking? I like very much this sound of spoken English! ♥ (is it, for example, southern accent or?) :D!
I'm from Somerset, UK :)
@@ThenNow Thank you! :D
What clock? Why and for what?
So Rugby was prefered from higher class families? But that only counts for Britain and back then in the old times right? Soccer was not considered posh enough?
You are amazing thank you so much
How does habotus relate to the psychological concept of heuristics?
I can see them being related, as embodied, implicit forms of knowing. I think the main difference would be the tie of habitus to achievement rather than just a shortcut in cognition - social cognition being the first step in taking a stance to move toward some good.
And all of this implies the social nature of habitus, i.e. it represents and reproduces specific kinds of social relationships. This social element of the terrain is downplayed or absent in heuristics, which sees roots of heuristics in cognitive laziness rather than the effort involved in triggering specific social relationships to achieve social aims (i.e. aims related to specific classes of people).
I think both run on the same implicit primary process Kahneman talks about, but habitus is a whole level of social reality built on implicit knowing, not just individual implicit knowing itself.
Just my guess.
Habitus=Tendency to a specific behavior?
Maybe a specific behavior within a field of social expectations, as I understand it. This video doesn't use the concept of doxa, but I learned habitus and doxa together. Think about putting your feet on the table - it's often considered "rude" because we have ideas about what is proper, what is "dirt" beyond any abstract scientific understanding of disease, etc. Doxa indicates certain beliefs connected to what is taken for granted, what is "natural" for us (e.g. tables and feet don't go together). Habitus reflects this doxa in that it tries to achieve goals within those social limits. This is where the video talks about "strategies" - one uses strategies within a certain context, being a certain way in a certain context. Both the "way of being" and the "context" are socially determined.
Connect this to social capital. In one study I read, single parents in a marginalized community would "exile" their kids, sending them to live in other regions or even put them into institutions, as a way of augmenting their parenting and making up for their lack of opportunities. Assuming they had family in their neighborhood, why would they send kids away? Because the kind of social capital they got from a marginalized community wouldn't get them out of the community. They needed to form relationships with people in other social circles to learn how to navigate life with more opportunities. So the stance, the habitus, the tendencies to behavior of a lower class student with relationships to upper class people and institutions, that's a different habitus than a student who stayed in the marginalized community. Here, you can see the "strategy" behind the habitus, and also how it implies a certain social field with certain characteristics and opportunities.
At least this is how I'm thinking about it.
We live in a society
Anyone know where I can find a transcript for this?
I make the transcripts available for Patreon supporters :)
Biological determinism?
theory and praxis is the most underrated dichotomy ever invented
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Witch book do I read from Bourdieu to get further in to this theory?
Distinction: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_(book)
You have to admire the optimism and rationalism of the French. Of course, this is mostly nonsense. People rarely think, or make choices. We live with practical consciousness: if, for example, I run for the bus stop, catch a bus, arrive at my destination, I'm not thinking about my options; I'm doing things by rote. I know what my expectations of a shopkeeper, or a family or a policeman is: my use of archetypes establishes my approach and expectations. It's rare, indeed, that I'm called upon to think self-reflexively about my actions. The functions of the structures and institutions I'm in also guide me: whatever the natural propensities I was born with, my predelictions, all this will be steered empirically (as Bhakar notes, the world is layered between the actual, real and empirical). I've yet to encounter this free human that Bourdieu refers to
Being a mere engineer with no greec, I pretty much understood the video, but I do not understand this. You have obviously read a lot in the area. So, my understanding of the video is pretty much that the class you are born in will limit your choices to those open to you in that habitus. Doesnt sound all that free to me.
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Doesn’t it all come down to survival?
Aaaw, i miss social studies....
i hate this man cuz he gives me a headache but props to him for being a genius lol
Long live bourgeois subjectivity
It took more than 200 years to travel from David Hume’s “ Man is a habitual animal “ to Bourdieu’s “Man is a habitus animal “!!! Such a small distance??!!
It could have taken much longer had we not had Karl Marx(Historical-dialectical materialism) in between!!. We are, after all, not as rational as we think we are!!
The explanation seems clear but Bourdieu's habitus seems banal. Of course behaviors depend on the context and the person involved.
@MyOther Soul Not as banal as it seems. Has someone ever formulated it the way Bourdieu has?
@@roblemaer4834 Sure, 3:12 in the video gives an example of very similar formulations: tendency, propensity and inclination. I would add to those habit. I am sure it's possible to come up with a grammatical sentence that seems to express a difference between Bourdieu's "habitus" and those terms. The question I have is that difference useful in anyway demonstrable way?
@@myothersoul1953 But the concept of "habit" lacks the context of a social field, not to mention it has connotations of automaticity which aren't present in habitus. Just listen to what comes before and after your marker. Any reinforced actions can become a habit, but the set of expectations implying a certain understanding of a social landscape, an understanding which is itself conditioned by social position, all of which goes toward a theory of social reproduction. None of that is present if you reduce habitus to habit.
Saying the stability of social difference is reproduced due to habit isn't banal, it's absurd. Saying it's reproduced by habitus responding to a social field and reflecting a doxa is not absurd, it's useful. The fact that it's useful is demonstrated by the use of of the concept of social capital in formulating health interventions with a remarkable rate of effectiveness.
@@MatthewTeeters404 But the concept of a social field lacks any denotative value that is demonstrable in any form that would render it reliable.
@@myothersoul1953 I don't know what to say regarding the concept of a social field lacking denotative value; I'm wondering if you'd say the same regarding *any* sociological concept. Certainly, a social field is not a "thing" in some literal sense, but is a way of describing the context within which social activity takes place. And I've already mentioned social capital's use in health interventions; the value of a pragmatic concept is its utility, so I don't know in what way it's unreliable.
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I only were here because my teacher told me to
Habitus is a further development of Existentialism. I suppose the Matrix is what you make of it. After all, this is not the first Earth, nor the first humanity. You all asked to be here, but you don't remember that now. Paraphrasing Plato, "The world is a prison from which one must not try to escape". It's all a gift, even the shitty stuff.
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40 people wanted to be unconstrained by society. Freedom they theorized, was in hitting the dislike button.
The video is great but your pronunciation of Bourdieu is killing me 😂
If this channel truly would not exist without me, it has no legitimacy to exist. Get a job
Its all B.S.! Beliefs systems....Habits and Novelty.....
this is some complicated shit
i love the the video and the way you explain it but i hate the british accent
this made no sense
Can I say sth ? your explanations create more confusions .You have a pre written text before you and you read those terminologies not knowing those words need to be fully comprehended .Your job is to facilitate not to create more confusion .I am reading Borduie's book .It is much more comprehensible .
Left-wing subject.
Obvious facts are obvious.