Unity and fragmentation of the habitus

This paper examines a unitary notion of the habitus present in Bourdieu's early works and its transformation along his sociological career, to later conceptions of a fragmented habitus concept to examine contemporary relationality and social change. The career of the concept of habitus in Bourd...

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Autores: Silva, Elizabeth, Miraldi, Juliana, Abdalla, Julia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Temáticas (Campinas. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:inpec.econtents.bc.unicamp.br:article/18465
Acceso en línea:https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/tematicas/article/view/18465
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Habitus unitário
Habitus fragmentado
Pierre Bourdieu
Mudança social
Matrizes relacionais múltiplas.
Unitary habitus
Fragmented habitus
Social change
Multiple relational matrices
Habitus unitario
Cambio social
Múltiples matrices relacionales
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Sumario:This paper examines a unitary notion of the habitus present in Bourdieu's early works and its transformation along his sociological career, to later conceptions of a fragmented habitus concept to examine contemporary relationality and social change. The career of the concept of habitus in Bourdieu shows that interplays of habitus and fields are seen to demand increasing labour of integration from individuals as social life becomes more differentiated. The paper claims the need for sociology to engage with field analyses to advance explorations of the habitus and to acknowledge the potential pliability of the concept. It is suggested that sociology may adopt the psychoanalytic notion of ‘standing in spaces’ (and associated notions of ‘liminality’ and experiences in interstitial positons) for a productive development of the notion of fragmented habitus, and to enhance proposals that view the social with a history that is made available to humans to change.