Practice Theory Revisited : How Flexible Meta-habit Complements Habitus

• Autorzy: Joanna Zalewska
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This article seeks to understand why it is relatively easy for today's individuals to acquire new behaviors, how the mechanism behind such acquisition developed, and how it is socially coordinated. Empirical findings reveal that new behaviors are mostly acquired unthinkingly. Hence, revisiting practice theory, I propose the concept of meta-habit to help us understand the blind and automatic acquisition of new behaviors. According to Pierre Bourdieu, habitus acquired primarily in childhood generates practices and contributes to the reproduction of the social order. Meta-habit includes disposal toward being open to situational context, toward inquisitiveness, and toward reading the external clues of behavior. Meta-habit generates practices on the basis of influences in the symbolic community: in this way practices are coordinated socially. Meta-habit is responsible for the reproduction of the social order in situations when the social space is very dynamic-this being the case of late modernity, which is a system comprising myriads of fields. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Social behaviour; Theory of human behavior

PL

Zachowania społeczne; Teoria zachowań ludzkich

• Czasopismo: Polish Sociological Review
• Rocznik: 2019
• Numer: nr 1 (205)
• Strony: 65--84

Twórcy

autor

Joanna Zalewska

• Maria Grzegorzewska University

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DOI

10.26412/psr205.05