Habitus: Relationship Between Structure, Culture, And Agency

Explain the habitus. From where does it come? What does it do? How does it help us to understand the relationship between structure, culture, and agency?

The definition of habitus is officially, as per Bourdieu himself: habitus is referred to as the 'structuring structure' or 'playing the game'. It is a mental filter that structures an individual’s perceptions, experiences, and practices such that the world has a taken-for-granted common sense appearances. Imagine an allegory of a soccer game (the game itself having a room [the field], the players [the individual habitus] agree to a certain set of rules [the doxa]). The players playing the game depends on which cards they hold (the forms of capital). These are the things that create practice. When one grows up, your family and
And in turn, you start to internalize this information. The information begins to make up who you are. When you get into a new situation, you draw on your experience (your habitus), to think out the options you have. In this way, your personal history limits and embodies the choices you can make. It takes a long time to form, but it is generally stable. Your habitus is your particularly shaped key to success within a special field. But if your lock is differently shaped and you have the wrong habits and experiences, then you are locked out from certain experiences. And using this, in combination with human capital, it isn’t always necessarily beneficial to have the strongest forms of each capital in every context (though, generally, the stronger the capital you hold, the more likely you are able to pass on your