Bourdieu's Habitus
For Bourdieu, belief and habit are always governed by the social. Bourdieu saw habitus as combining the role of structure (of society) and agency (of the individual) to frame how people come to decide what to do. The internalised norms of the habitus are the result of the subject's exposure to social processes and this ensures that the human subject's habitual modes of thought and action are governed by the social. Further, a person's 'individual habitus', based on their own, unique set of experiences of the world, is never more than a slight structural variation on a 'class habitus' , which consists of structures that integrate all the experiences statistically common members of the same class. In associating an individual's habits with a
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We worry less about the "reality" below the image because we realize that it's just more images, that there's no difference. In professions like psychology and religion the expanding pool of images and icons erode faith in any one reality beneath, though some people (e.g., iconoclasts) hang on anyway to the idea that images are just fake covers over real truths hidden beneath. Such people do this by posing various rock-bottom realities like God, Truth, Reality. Others, (e.g., iconolators) see that beneath the image/reality dualism resides politics--group struggle. Disneyland generates much solidarity by leading reverent crowds through images and icons of America, hiding with the "imaginary" nature of this theme park the possibility that the whole city of L.A. and nation of the U.S.A. are just as constructed and imaginary, however much they might be masking as relatively "real." The country is hyperreal, based upon nothing but its own image of
We worry less about the "reality" below the image because we realize that it's just more images, that there's no difference. In professions like psychology and religion the expanding pool of images and icons erode faith in any one reality beneath, though some people (e.g., iconoclasts) hang on anyway to the idea that images are just fake covers over real truths hidden beneath. Such people do this by posing various rock-bottom realities like God, Truth, Reality. Others, (e.g., iconolators) see that beneath the image/reality dualism resides politics--group struggle. Disneyland generates much solidarity by leading reverent crowds through images and icons of America, hiding with the "imaginary" nature of this theme park the possibility that the whole city of L.A. and nation of the U.S.A. are just as constructed and imaginary, however much they might be masking as relatively "real." The country is hyperreal, based upon nothing but its own image of