Multiple theorists converge on tacit, embodied knowledge underlying social action.

Evidence

Michael Polyani refers to a “tacit dimension,” Mary Douglas to “implicit meaning,” Pierre Bourdieu to “habitus,” Charles Taylor to an “implicit understanding,”—the distilled dispositions and trained capacities that work through bodies and on them. Each, with different emphasis, identifies those habits of heart, mind, and comportment that derive from unstated understandings of how things work in the world, the categories to which people belong, and the kind of knowledge one needs to hold unarticulated but well-rehearsed convictions and credulities. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 240

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out the family of concepts (tacit dimension, implicit meaning, habitus, implicit understanding) naming embodied commonsense dispositions.
• XREF: Directly bridges the theoretical vocabulary of tacit knowledge that also runs through Marxist and Frankfurt-School accounts of ideology and practice.