habitus


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Synonyms for habitus

the physical or constitutional characteristics of a person

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Synonyms for habitus

person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease)

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Its image in the Filipino habitus oscillates between that of a weak nation that, having been ravaged by foreign powers, could neither feed nor stop the migration of its people - and that of a resurgent country whose newfound wealth is now used to fuel its own expansionist aggressiveness.
In Bourdieusian terms (BOURDIEU, 1991), the cultural capital students possess would not converge to the ones required in classroom practices or, in further analysis, their habitus does not acknowledge some issue so legitimate as others.
Em termos mais objetivos, a obra de Bourdieu e marcada pela busca da superacao da classica antinomia das ciencias sociais entre a agencia e a estrutura, que esse autor procurou resolver a partir da categoria de habitus, retomando assim toda uma tradicao das ciencias humanas que orbita em torno desta (1).
Drawing on the concepts of habitus, cultural capital, and mobility capital, we present findings from exploratory interview-based research with Canadian students who were about to spend some of their undergraduate education abroad as exchange students, or had recently returned from a study exchange.
He states that the artist is a "habitus in a social field"--and so whatever revolution Manet sets off, whatever symbolic bomb is his oeuvre of paintings, Bourdieu will not attribute it to Manet's inborn genius nor to precursor works, per se (61).
De esta manera la presente reflexion tiene la intencion de relacionar las dinamicas de reincidencia, a traves de la investigacion con historias de vida realizada por Salazar (2016) (2) debido a que sus entrevistas tienen elementos importantes que le aportan a la reflexion, al indagar por el habitus en esta poblacion.
Society in Contemporary Laos: Capitalism, Habitus and Belief.
In attempting to understand the emplaced nature of the young people's experiences and the connection with their educational choices, this analysis draws on Bourdieu's (1977/1990) concepts of social and cultural capital and habitus, as well as Connell's theory of the gender order, especially hegemonic masculinity (2005).
[8,9] For these systems that rely on length to predict weight, it is important that habitus is quantified accurately in order to obtain a correct weight estimation in all children, including those who are underweight or obese.
The resulting information was analyzed based on the sociological theories of Pierre Bourdieu, especially the concept of habitus.
A educacao, portanto, participa enquanto fenomeno de reproducao desse produto material e imaterial que, acumulado ao longo da historia humana, nos constitui do elemento tao proprio a especie: a formacao de seres humanos e o acumulo historico de nossa producao material e imaterial de existencia, em um volume de praticas humanas reiteradas que sao incorporadas tornando-se um habitus (Saviani, 1991).