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How does Bordieu use the concept of "habitus" to overcome the antinomy between subjectivism and objectivism?
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How does Bordieu use the concept of "habitus" to overcome the antinomy between subjectivism and objectivism? Bordieu states that firstly Objectivism holds that our everyday lives are predetermined into a structure before we are even Born, that there are rules which determine our behaviour. . These are a set of very definite laws which we follow. Subjectivism, he states, is then one takes these individual actions and state that social reality is made up by these acts of interpretation. Bordieus main concern was with how people individualise themselves within society.He wishes to portray an objective analysis of these structures that control, frame and influence our social lives. Bordieu refers to this sort of second nature or intuition as "habitus". "Habitus designates the system of durable and transposable dispositions through which we percieve, judge and act in the world". Outline the central thesis of Distinction. Here Bordieu is offering a "social critique of the...
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