Introduction to Bourdieu: Habitus

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  • @ThenNow
    @ThenNow  Год назад +2

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  • @yikesaghost4002
    @yikesaghost4002 3 года назад +227

    Watching this instead of doing my readings because I procrastinated too long. Awesome video, thank you!

    • @mammi7699
      @mammi7699 2 года назад +28

      Watching this because my brain just failed to comprehend the text by itself. Sometimes someone else explaining helps better🍌

    • @vinivaskinho
      @vinivaskinho 2 года назад +5

      "I'm in this comment and I don't like it"

    • @anlin1571
      @anlin1571 Год назад +2

      me two😅

    • @RoyAlexander
      @RoyAlexander Год назад +6

      You're not procrastinating you're doing side quests.

    • @Jokkkkke
      @Jokkkkke Год назад +3

      @@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 ;)

  • @plancton9919
    @plancton9919 4 года назад +94

    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...

    • @mammi7699
      @mammi7699 2 года назад

      So, habitus = interpellation?

    • @paulargyropoulos2203
      @paulargyropoulos2203 Год назад +3

      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.

    • @Gabriel.Vargas
      @Gabriel.Vargas Год назад +4

      This was one of the best YT comments I've ever come across.

  • @mr.chuckles2447
    @mr.chuckles2447 5 лет назад +118

    You deserve much more then 22k subscribers.

    • @user-sx1ug6qn4w
      @user-sx1ug6qn4w 3 года назад +1

      And much more than 97.5k !

    • @Sciptopia
      @Sciptopia 2 года назад +1

      Now 220k lol. That's a 1000% gain

    • @Xamry
      @Xamry 2 месяца назад

      *laughs in almost half a million*

  • @onkarvigy
    @onkarvigy 3 года назад +8

    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!!!

  • @Eliajayoub
    @Eliajayoub 5 лет назад +82

    Thanks for this! The quote at 7:34 is actually by Durkheim. Bourdieu quotes it in Outline of a Theory of Practice.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 2 года назад +2

    2:00 - Context
    9:35 - Difference between habitus & habit ?

  • @nicholasb4071
    @nicholasb4071 5 лет назад +16

    One of the most useful explanations of Bourdieu I’ve seen.

  • @brianmontalvo7044
    @brianmontalvo7044 5 лет назад +12

    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.

  • @Amish_Trivedi
    @Amish_Trivedi 5 лет назад +51

    Working on my diss, which is heavily Bourdieu influenced. This is really nicely done.

  • @willgregor4392
    @willgregor4392 4 года назад +12

    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.

  • @badcarlos551
    @badcarlos551 4 года назад +6

    Great channel, it's about time sociology got some love on RUclips

  • @Rosiewithfootprints
    @Rosiewithfootprints 3 года назад +2

    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.

  • @valeriya2984
    @valeriya2984 4 года назад +16

    This is an extremely cool and understandable explanation of the meaning of habitus, thank you!!!

  • @pattikahlo8175
    @pattikahlo8175 2 года назад

    Thanks

  • @DavidKing-pr7gl
    @DavidKing-pr7gl 2 года назад

    Thanks!

  • @nathanielross295
    @nathanielross295 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @saloniaurora
    @saloniaurora 4 года назад +7

    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 🙏

    • @DavidKing-pr7gl
      @DavidKing-pr7gl 2 года назад

      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

  • @brianconnor9988
    @brianconnor9988 2 года назад +1

    Good video. As a language nerd I have to point out that the plural of “habitus” is “habitus”

  • @alorikkoln
    @alorikkoln Год назад +1

    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.

  • @nikosspyris
    @nikosspyris 2 года назад +1

    So to my understanding, it can be simplified as the internalisation, understanding and subconscious adherence to social norms and patterns

  • @byarichand
    @byarichand 5 лет назад +5

    Great Video! Succintly and eloquently articulated the essence of his work.

  • @rachel-dc4ti
    @rachel-dc4ti 2 года назад

    Thanks, this helped a lot with my exam.

  • @NothingYouHaventReadBefore
    @NothingYouHaventReadBefore Год назад

    The explanation and edit is beautifully down. Thank you for the clear explanation!

  • @chaueter1041
    @chaueter1041 5 лет назад +4

    Excellent as always

  • @tiely13
    @tiely13 5 лет назад +9

    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.

  • @OBear07
    @OBear07 3 года назад +1

    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!

  • @LEEJUNGEUN1000
    @LEEJUNGEUN1000 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for the video which helped me alot to understand the concept of Habitus.

  • @dr.isaacabuya3277
    @dr.isaacabuya3277 4 года назад +1

    I am excited! Excellent treatment of Bourdieu's critical concepts!

  • @TheMidnight7illusion
    @TheMidnight7illusion Год назад

    Thank you so much for this! So much clearer and very helpful for uni!

  • @gogosmileyface
    @gogosmileyface 4 года назад

    great video! very informational, amazing graphics, and an overall great narrator!

  • @RaymondRAYCE
    @RaymondRAYCE 4 года назад +1

    Got to watch this for sociological theory. Great work! I found myself tying in the dramaturgical effect along with various other keywords and nuances.

  • @pradeepkrishnan6233
    @pradeepkrishnan6233 4 года назад +1

    beautifully explained man, subscribed

  • @nathanielcole3681
    @nathanielcole3681 4 года назад +4

    Hi the plural of habitus is habitus.

  • @Dorian_sapiens
    @Dorian_sapiens 5 лет назад +3

    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.

    • @jacksonlian789
      @jacksonlian789 4 года назад +2

      Foucault's Discipline & Punish

    • @TheChknptpie
      @TheChknptpie 4 года назад +3

      Erving Goffman- a lot of overlaps with Bourdieu's theory of practice.

    • @MatthewTeeters404
      @MatthewTeeters404 4 года назад +1

      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.

  • @Viv8ldi
    @Viv8ldi 4 года назад +2

    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?

  • @fernandolima4826
    @fernandolima4826 2 года назад

    Congratulations! Eventually, I understood the habitus meaning.

  • @mgw622
    @mgw622 5 лет назад +3

    Thanks for this, I love the way you string images together! Helps me process somehow. My favorite part was the pondering question mark boy.

  • @leahag3798
    @leahag3798 9 месяцев назад

    This is so useful, thank you!

  • @adejuwondestiny2631
    @adejuwondestiny2631 3 года назад +1

    This helped a lot...thank you

  • @garethrice1266
    @garethrice1266 2 года назад

    This is a very good overview of habitus. Nice one. Thanks for uploading. 👍

  • @KeelyBurch-Havers
    @KeelyBurch-Havers Год назад

    Great video - helped to consolidate my understanding of Bourdieu!

  • @ValentineIbeka
    @ValentineIbeka 5 лет назад +1

    Excellent presentation of Bourdieu’s ideas

  • @mahimapareek6579
    @mahimapareek6579 4 года назад

    This video engages with the concept wonderfully !

  • @Trogdorfan107
    @Trogdorfan107 5 лет назад +2

    This is great. Very nice introduction to the concept.

  • @therealkevy
    @therealkevy 4 года назад

    A great video, and your links have proven invaluable for my thesis. Many thanks!

  • @Viv8ldi
    @Viv8ldi 4 года назад +1

    What do you think about the Sinuns Milieu Model?

  • @farahkhan9794
    @farahkhan9794 3 года назад

    your voice is so good for these videos lmao

  • @andersbech4377
    @andersbech4377 5 лет назад +1

    Thanks for your quality videos !

  • @tayloranasthasia9980
    @tayloranasthasia9980 5 лет назад +1

    great video! Very informative !

  • @zobazoba69
    @zobazoba69 5 лет назад +1

    do you have one on anthony Giddens? i prefer his constructivism cause it links micro and macro structures

  • @AP-yx1mm
    @AP-yx1mm 5 лет назад +2

    Really good video. My sociology professor would say that action we have in terms of Habitus is “Regulated/Ordinated Improvisation”.

  • @LogicGated
    @LogicGated 2 года назад

    Gotta love when a short simple vid clears up many of the questions you had.

  • @chiedzachoicenyakanyanga5283
    @chiedzachoicenyakanyanga5283 3 года назад

    Great! So precise and clear

  • @Jules.Gonzalez
    @Jules.Gonzalez 4 года назад

    Helpful for my final!

  • @rumanisengupta149
    @rumanisengupta149 Год назад

    Thank you for this. 😊

  • @aseefasss5669
    @aseefasss5669 3 года назад

    Nice introduction and understood alot🤩🤩🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

  • @godfreemorals
    @godfreemorals 5 лет назад +4

    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

    • @jaxlady32224
      @jaxlady32224 4 года назад

      Pick it back up and finish or still write and publish your work!

    • @godfreemorals
      @godfreemorals 4 года назад

      @@jaxlady32224 Mum? 😂
      Y'know I just might.

  • @Viv8ldi
    @Viv8ldi 4 года назад +1

    Habitus=Tendency to a specific behavior?

    • @MatthewTeeters404
      @MatthewTeeters404 4 года назад +6

      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.

  • @willzimmermann2511
    @willzimmermann2511 3 месяца назад

    The plural of habitus in Latin is not “habitī” but “habitūs” - that is, the u is longer. It is therefore not imprudent at all to just pronounce the plural the same as the singular, since we make no such distinction in our vowels. Or habituses.

  • @t_albino
    @t_albino 4 года назад

    Great introduction to this man - made me want to seek out his work further!

  • @fsw555
    @fsw555 5 лет назад +2

    Thank you - he is a favorite!

  • @evelynwinters9395
    @evelynwinters9395 5 лет назад +1

    This is fab - thank you

  • @iadros10
    @iadros10 5 лет назад +1

    Great vid!

  • @polpoleutar3127
    @polpoleutar3127 3 года назад

    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!

  • @wfdy8333
    @wfdy8333 4 года назад

    I love this video.

  • @DavidKing-pr7gl
    @DavidKing-pr7gl 2 года назад

    What clock? Why and for what?

  • @archmethven527
    @archmethven527 3 года назад

    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?

  • @aykabo
    @aykabo 4 года назад +1

    If it's possible to add subtitles, I would like to translate it into Turkish.

  • @shawnburnham1
    @shawnburnham1 Год назад

    1:00

  • @brettknoss486
    @brettknoss486 4 года назад

    How does habotus relate to the psychological concept of heuristics?

    • @MatthewTeeters404
      @MatthewTeeters404 4 года назад

      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.

  • @csd-xc8ul
    @csd-xc8ul 3 года назад

    Very cool

  • @Ba-pb8ul
    @Ba-pb8ul 3 года назад

    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

    • @karakoima
      @karakoima 3 года назад

      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.

  • @Nick-pl8st
    @Nick-pl8st Год назад

    We live in a society

  • @1225elb
    @1225elb 8 месяцев назад

    Biological determinism?

  • @onkarvigy
    @onkarvigy 3 года назад

    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!!

  • @hazeleddleston-lee8371
    @hazeleddleston-lee8371 5 лет назад +1

    You are amazing thank you so much

  • @SidraAbbas1
    @SidraAbbas1 4 года назад +2

    i hate this man cuz he gives me a headache but props to him for being a genius lol

  • @Hannah-tg8hw
    @Hannah-tg8hw 3 года назад +1

    40 people wanted to be unconstrained by society. Freedom they theorized, was in hitting the dislike button.

  • @Debord1
    @Debord1 5 лет назад

    Witch book do I read from Bourdieu to get further in to this theory?

    • @theoploeg
      @theoploeg 5 лет назад +1

      Distinction: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_(book)

  • @tomasbickel58
    @tomasbickel58 5 лет назад +8

    Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (sometimes spelled Leibnitz) (/ˈlaɪbnɪts/; German: [ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈvɪlhɛlm fɔn ˈlaɪbnɪts] ... like .. Li-bnitz ... but otherwise nice Vid

  • @myothersoul1953
    @myothersoul1953 5 лет назад +2

    The explanation seems clear but Bourdieu's habitus seems banal. Of course behaviors depend on the context and the person involved.

    • @roblemaer4834
      @roblemaer4834 4 года назад

      @MyOther Soul Not as banal as it seems. Has someone ever formulated it the way Bourdieu has?

    • @myothersoul1953
      @myothersoul1953 4 года назад

      @@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?

    • @MatthewTeeters404
      @MatthewTeeters404 4 года назад +1

      @@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.

    • @myothersoul1953
      @myothersoul1953 4 года назад

      @@MatthewTeeters404 But the concept of a social field lacks any denotative value that is demonstrable in any form that would render it reliable.

    • @MatthewTeeters404
      @MatthewTeeters404 4 года назад

      @@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.

  • @adamzielinski1053
    @adamzielinski1053 3 года назад

    Long live bourgeois subjectivity

  • @domm1341
    @domm1341 3 года назад

    Doesn’t it all come down to survival?

  • @John-lf3xf
    @John-lf3xf 5 лет назад

    theory and praxis is the most underrated dichotomy ever invented

  • @Mantalette76
    @Mantalette76 3 года назад

    Aaaw, i miss social studies....

  • @hxero9389
    @hxero9389 9 месяцев назад

    هسة شنو هالخريط

  • @nononouh
    @nononouh 2 года назад

    255

  • @benjaminpiihl508
    @benjaminpiihl508 3 года назад

    I only were here because my teacher told me to

  • @DeepSouthExperience
    @DeepSouthExperience Год назад

    Gator Anthropology!

  • @bellatuft4907
    @bellatuft4907 2 года назад +2

    this made no sense

  • @piawirth979
    @piawirth979 3 года назад

    The video is great but your pronunciation of Bourdieu is killing me 😂

  • @Base4SpaceGlobal
    @Base4SpaceGlobal 3 года назад

    If this channel truly would not exist without me, it has no legitimacy to exist. Get a job

  • @Rose-fw8dr
    @Rose-fw8dr 5 лет назад

    this is some complicated shit

  • @summondadrummin2868
    @summondadrummin2868 5 лет назад +1

    Its all B.S.! Beliefs systems....Habits and Novelty.....

  • @rushillakdawala7854
    @rushillakdawala7854 Год назад

    Left-wing subject.

  • @eepbeep9000
    @eepbeep9000 7 месяцев назад

    mad boring

  • @davebryant5731
    @davebryant5731 4 года назад +2

    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 .

  • @a5dr3
    @a5dr3 4 года назад

    Obvious facts are obvious.

  • @sebnemsencaglayan8746
    @sebnemsencaglayan8746 4 года назад

    i love the the video and the way you explain it but i hate the british accent