Bordieu_+_Habitus

Bordieu + Habitus Explain Bourdieu’s notions of habitus and cultural capital and how you believe they might influence the art education of young people. The Concept of Habitus For Bourdieu, habitus refers to socially acquire, embodied systems of durable dispositions, tendencies and inclinations, which he calls ‘the embodied history of being in social life’. These are manifested into outlooks, opinions and mannerisms. We are not normally consciously aware of habitus but we may become aware of it through conscious reflection or finding our selves in an alien environment. Habitus is defined by Bourdieu as “the generative principle of responses more or less well adapted to the demands of a certain field, is the product of individual history, but also, through the formative experiences of earliest infancy, of the whole collective history of family and class….” (Bourdieu, 1990, 91) Habitus is constructed through our acculturation into certain social groups such as social classes, a particular gender, our family, our peer group or even our nationality. There are different habituses associated with each of these groups and each individual’s habitus is a complex mix of these different habituses together with certain individual peculiarities. Concept of cultural capital and the relationship between habitus and cultural capital Cultural capital is something habitus, bourdieu, cultural, capital, school, children, middle, class, social, teachers, educational, two, through, schooling, life, individual, encounter, embodied, dominant, curriculum, systems, people, one’s, one, history, habituses, family, even, education, different, acquire, values, teacher, student, public