Unity and fragmentation of the habitus

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Elizabeth
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Miraldi, Juliana, Abdalla, Julia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Temáticas (Campinas. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/tematicas/article/view/18465
• topic: Habitus unitário; Habitus fragmentado; Pierre Bourdieu; Mudança social; Matrizes relacionais múltiplas.; Unitary habitus; Fragmented habitus; Pierre Bourdieu; Social change; Multiple relational matrices; Habitus unitario; Habitus fragmentado; Pierre Bourdieu; Cambio social; Múltiples matrices relacionales

This paper examines a unitary notion of the habitus present in Bourdieu's early works and its transformation along his sociological career, to later conceptions of a fragmented habitus concept to examine contemporary relationality and social change. The career of the concept of habitus in Bourdieu shows that interplays of habitus and fields are seen to demand increasing labour of integration from individuals as social life becomes more differentiated. The paper claims the need for sociology to engage with field analyses to advance explorations of the habitus and to acknowledge the potential pliability of the concept. It is suggested that sociology may adopt the psychoanalytic notion of ‘standing in spaces’ (and associated notions of ‘liminality’ and experiences in interstitial positons) for a productive development of the notion of fragmented habitus, and to enhance proposals that view the social with a history that is made available to humans to change.