Abstract
The purpose of this study was to analyse the habituation of character education in students by paying attention to factors influencing them to deviate from character values. The study employed a mixed-method approach. The qualitative approach involved 28 participants (teachers and students). While in the quantitative study, 65 students were purposively selected as respondents. Qualitative data were analysed through some stages, including data presentation, data reduction, conclusion and verification, while the quantitative data was processed using linear regression statistics assisted by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and STATA software to analyse the influences of variables identified from qualitative data collection and to measure how influential independent variables on dependent variables are. The findings show that the factor leading to the deviation of character values at school is the diversity of cultural backgrounds applied where students come from. Findings of the qualitative investigation show seven aspects influencing the character value deviation, including parents’ attention, socialisation, media, consumerism behaviour, self-actualisation, economic status and family harmony. While the quantitative stage found that among seven investigated variables, four of them were significantly influential (parents’ attention, socialisation, media and self-actualisation) and three others were not significantly influential (consumerism, economic status and family harmony) on the deviation of character values performed by students
 
 Keywords: Character value deviation, educational value, habituation.
Highlights
A school, as one of the community groups, has normative rules which support educational programmes
The purpose of this study was to analyse the habituation of character education in students by paying attention to factors influencing them to deviate from character values
The rules can be in the form of a code of conduct formulated by school communities as a social group or in the form of social rules that generally apply as school exists among societies, which have a value system
Summary
A school, as one of the community groups, has normative rules which support educational programmes. The rules can be in the form of a code of conduct formulated by school communities as a social group or in the form of social rules that generally apply as school exists among societies, which have a value system. When the actors (students) do not obey the rules or the existing social convention, social deviation emerges. Children’s attitudes deviating from the character values automatically break the agreed norms or rules. Habitus means the product resulted from the internalisation of the social world structure. Habitus is a social structure that is internalised and realised (Bourdieu in Ritzer, 2015). Bourdieu tries to merge actor and system so that the approach he introduces is referred to as genetic structuralism
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