Habitus derives from group membership as much as from class

Evidence

For Bourdieu, the habitus is class-based, but this example shows that it is also based on group membership, which is not always exclusively class-based. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1066

Categorization

  • XREF: Extends Bourdieu’s habitus concept to group solidarity formation — a resource for theorizing how shared activity reshapes perception. — connects to: Members’ class and racial identities shape how communities do commoning. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 57; Achieved status remains heavily dependent on ascribed group membership — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3161; Habitus theory explains ethnicity’s persistence and flexibility through embodiment, agency, and collective-individual interplay — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 937

Broader Connections