1. STRUCTURES AND THE HABITUS
Pierre Bourdieu
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2. Contents
 Habitus
 Structure
 Praxis (Practice)
 Habitus-Structure-Practice Relationship
 Habitus and Culture

3. Habitus
 The structures constitutive of a particular type of
environment produce habitus; systems of durable,
transposable dispositions, structured structures
predisposed to function as structuring structures
that is as the principles of the generation and
structuring of practices and representations which
can be objectively regulated and regular without in
any way being product of obedience to rules.

4. Habitus
 meaningful practices, sense of practicality
 interaction with the social and material worlds.
 installed generative principle of regulated
improvisations, produces practices which tend to
reproduce regularities
 habitus tries to produce similar practices over structures
in an attempt to transfer the future.
 all the experiences, psychological or physiological
effects that people encounters are shaped and formed a
body in habitus

5. Structure,Objective
 objective structures are the products, they are determined by
the past conditions which have produced the principle of their
production and their outcome of identical or interchangeable
past practices coincides with their own outcome so that they
are the product are prolonged in the structures within which
they function.
 Type of conditions of existance

6. Praxis (Practice)
 praxis is taken as the process of “putting
theory into practice,”
 from praxis to practico-inert

7. Structure-Habitus-Pratice Relationship
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Anthro/Anth206/pierre_bourdieu.htm

8. Habitus and Culture
 which have been built through cultural practices.
 a variable for cultural perceptions
 habitus internalized cultural rules
 cultural capital, social status system are related to habitus