Editing Habitus (sociology) (section)

==Overview==
People with a common cultural background ([[social class]], religion, and nationality, [[ethnic group]], education, and profession) share a habitus as the way that group culture and personal history shape the mind of a person; consequently, the habitus of a person influences and shapes the [[social action]]s of the person.<ref>Lizardo, O. 2004, "The Cognitive Origins of Bourdieu's Habitus", Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 375–448.</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite book|title=Outline of a Theory of Practice|last=Bourdieu|first=Pierre|publisher=Cambridge University Press.|year=1977}}</ref>

The sociologist [[Pierre Bourdieu]] said that the ''habitus'' consists of the ''[[hexis]]'', a person's carriage ([[Posture (psychology)|posture]]) and speech ([[Accent (sociolinguistics)|accent]]), and the mental habits of perception, classification, appreciation, feeling, and action.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{cite book|last=Bourdieu|first=Pierre|title=Pascalian Meditations|publisher=Stanford University Press.|year=2000}}</ref> The habitus allows the individual person to consider and resolve problems based upon [[gut feeling]] and [[intuition]]. This way of living (social attitudes, mannerisms, tastes, morality, etc.) influences the availability of opportunities in life; thus the habitus is structured by the person's social class, but also gives structure to the future paths available to the person. Therefore, the reproduction of social structures results from the habitus of the individual persons who compose the given social structure.

The habitus is criticised as being a [[Determinism|deterministic]] concept, because, as ''social actors'', people behave as ''automata'', in the sense proposed in the [[Monadology]] of the philosopher [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|G.W. Leibniz]].<ref name=":1" />