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habitus  

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  • Habitus is a “socialized subjectivity” (Bourdieu and Wacquant 2002, 126); it is Pierre Bourdieu's way of theorizing a self that is socially produced. The concept is designed to capture the dynamic and mutually constitutive relation between the person and the social world, in which social relations become constituted within the self but also the self is constitutive of social relations. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Habitus]

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