Editing Habitus (sociology) (section)

== Scholars researching habitus ==
* [[Loïc Wacquant]] - a sociologist and ethnographer who studied the construction of the "pugilistic habitus" in a boxing gym of the black ghetto of Chicago in ''Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer'' (2004) and in "Habitus as Topic and Tool" (2009).
* Bernard Lahire - a French sociologist who suggested that the habitus is not (or no longer) a system shared by a class, but rather an eclectic set of dispositions that are often contradictory, due to non-typical socialization paths in late modernity.<ref>Lahire, Bernard. 2011. The Plural Actor. Cambridge: Polity.</ref>
* Gabriel Ignatow explored how the notion of habitus can contribute to the [[sociology of morality]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Why the Sociology of Morality Needs Bourdieu's Habitus|last=Ignatow|first=Gabriel|year=2009|newspaper=Sociological Inquiry 79:98-114}}</ref>
* [[Philippe Bourgois]] - an anthropologist who incorporates the concept of "habitus" into much of his work with intravenous drug users in the San Francisco Bay Area.
* [[Saba Mahmood]] - an anthropologist who suggested that the habitus can be shaped and transformed not only through unconscious mimesis but also through pedagogic process, while reverting from Bourdieu's account to that of Aristotle.
* Stephen Parkin - a sociologist who considers the "habitus" construct as an explanatory mechanism for the production of drug related harm in drug using environments located in public settings in "Habitus and Drug Using Environments: Health Place and Lived-Experience" (published by Ashgate in August 2013).
* [[Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer]] – [https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/theologie/cirrus/ Center for the Interdisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CIRRuS)] at Bielefeld University (Germany)
* Ori Schwarz - a sociologist who studied the "sonic habitus", schemes that organize the production of sounds, their classification (e.g. as "noise") and the reaction to them.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Sound of Stigmatization: Sonic Habitus, Sonic Styles, and Boundary Work in an Urban Slum|last=Schwarz|first=Ori|year=2015|pages=205–42|newspaper=American Journal of Sociology,121:205-242|volume=121|issue=1|doi=10.1086/682023|pmid=26430711|s2cid=10034380}}</ref>
* Loren Ludwig, US - a musicologist researching the way that [http://lorenludwig.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ludwig-Loren-Equal-to-All-Alike-A-Cultural-History-of-the-Viol-Consort-in-England-c.1550-1675.pdf instrumental chamber music allows for the cultivation and experience of habitus by its players].
* [[Norbert Elias]] - a German sociologist studying how the habitus is determined on our culturally accepted manners. In ‘’The Civilizing Process’’, his theory is also extended to a 'national habitus' of Germans, used to justify the Holocaust.<ref name="Elias -habitus">{{cite book|last1=Elias|first1=Norbert|title=The Civilizing Process|date=1939|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|location=Oxford|edition=5|id= {{ASIN|0631221611|country=uk}}}}</ref>
* Dov Cohen and Hans IJzerman - psychologists who studied the habitus in social psychology, examining how [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.806/abstract Latinos and Anglos embody honor differently].
* Sudhir Chella Rajan, who shows how [[automobility]] forms a complex [[Dispositif|discursive apparatus]] built on fragile assumptions around individuality, autonomy, and [https://upittpress.org/books/9780822956068/ driving] and is so ideologically powerful as to constitute the very bodily disposition of liberal political theory.
* Victor J. Friedman and Israel J. Sykes [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-007-7220-5_9 likens] the idea of habitus to the idea of theory-in-action developed by [[Chris Argyris]] and [[Donald Schön]].
* William Cockerham - American [[medical sociology|medical sociologist]], uses Bourdieu's habitus as a basis for his health lifestyle theory.