Concept Of Habitus Research Articles

‘Coach, or female coach? And does it matter?’: An autoethnography of playing the gendered game over a twenty-year elite swim coaching career

ABSTRACT Women are under-represented in high-performance head coach positions throughout global sport. To shed light on why this under-representation exists within UK swimming, an autoethnographic account of the first author’s experiences as a woman who competed and coached in high-performance swimming over a thirty-year career is presented. Critical reflexive conversations with the second author, coupled with sourcing artefacts such as memories, photographs and emails inspired four evocative personal stories that chart the voyage of: 1) a child entering and aspiring in the sport, 2) the transition from a retired female athlete to novice coach; 3) progression in becoming an international coach, and; 4) reaching the pinnacle of a coaching career and then beginning a coach tutor role. Accounts of how gender as a relation of power was exercised and navigated during the inauguration and progression as a woman who coached in a patriarchal profession are offered. In the pursuit of winning Olympic medals, an unrecognised double bind was revealed to have been negotiated throughout the entirety of the coach development pathway whereby masculine ideals were uncritically reproduced within the cultural landscape of elite UK swimming. Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, capital, field and doxa offer analytical insight for how masculine norms were socially reproduced. This double bind is argued as having and continuing to impede women coaches’ progression towards achieving equality within high-performance settings like UK swimming. The study highlights the value of acknowledging socio-cultural factors in coach education to address gender imbalances at an elite level.

Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs

Who do urban residents turn to in everyday security incidents? Why do some go to the police in certain locations, others to armed nonstate actors or kinship networks? We explore the ways in which residents and security actors – state and nonstate – negotiate everyday (in)security in contested urban spaces with multiple security actors. We consider how hybrid security assemblages are shaped by physical and social space and how everyday security practices shape space. We use Beirut's Southern Suburbs (Dahiyeh) as a site of theorisation, bringing local vernacular experiences into dialogue with Bourdieu's concepts of capital, habitus, doxa and field to develop a spatially dynamic analytical framework. Using this framework, we map security actors' different types and sizes of capital and how this capital is affected by residents' habitus and doxa within the everyday security field. We introduce the notion of ‘translocal habitus’ to capture the impact of families' origins outside Dahiyeh on everyday security dynamics. The framework we develop contributes to the spatialisation, vernacularisation and pluralisation of everyday security studies, furthers the spatialisation of Bourdieu and adds to the literature on hybrid forms of governance. Our analysis is based on extensive fieldwork, including over 150 interviews and ‘street chats’ with residents and security actors in and around Dahiyeh.

Malign and covert nationalism within British newspapers reporting of Eddie Jones’ appointment as head coach of the men's England national rugby union team

The appointment of Eddie Jones as the England men's rugby union head coach in 2015 was significant because he was the first foreign-born individual to occupy this role. After sourcing 136 British newspaper articles published one week either side of Jones’ official announcement for his appointment on 20th November 2015, this study identified three overarching themes for how narratives of this event were framed: (a) negativity and the loss of national identity; (b) positivity and need for cultural change underscored with conditional acceptance; and (c) declinism with the need for succession planning. Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus, embodied cultural and symbolic capital were drawn upon to theorise how much of the media initially rejected Jones’ appointment. The results indicated an overt and xenophobic ‘Little Englander’ narrative was first presented by some journalists based on Jones’ perceived Australian habitus and capital not reflecting the cultural values attached to English rugby union. Even when reports were positive, binary ‘one of our own/us’ and ‘outsider/them’ narratives represented symbolic violence through a malign ‘Little Englander’ attitude, albeit one that is a more covert form of discrimination than has previously been reported. Recommendations for continued analyses that acknowledge temporality within this discipline are finally presented.

Habitus and climate change: Exploring support and resistance to sustainable welfare and social-ecological transformations in Sweden.

We explore peoples' dispositions and practices with regard to social-ecological transformations based on a sustainable welfare policy strategy in Sweden. We draw on Bourdieu's concept of habitus to highlight the relations between social positions, dispositions, and position-takings. Using data from an own survey, we identify habitus types and place these in the space of social positions. We apply principal component analysis to a large set of questions about social, ecological, and climate change related topics and identify eight underlying eco-social dispositions. These are used for cluster analyses that find typical constellations of eco-social dispositions within the Swedish population: variants of eco-social habitus. We find seven habitus types and describe their social characteristics, political preferences, and practices. Finally, the seven habitus are plotted onto the map of social positions, the Bourdieusian social space, highlighting their relations-proximities, tensions, and contestations-to each other. We find evidence that political struggles around social-ecological transformations reproduce existing social structures but are also connected to new "eco-social" divisions that appear between groups in similar positions. In the conclusion we discuss the implications for social-ecological transformations based on sustainable welfare.

Administering inequality? The National Disability Insurance Scheme and administrative burdens on individuals

AbstractOver the last 30 years, governments have sought to give citizens greater choice and control of the public services they utilise. As a result, we have seen the creation of various forms of public sector markets, including through contracting and tendering processes and, more recently, by utilising individualised or ‘personalised’ care budgets. Under the latter, individuals are given money to purchase services that meet their needs. There is growing evidence that personalisation schemes may actually be entrenching administrative burden, due to their unprecedented emphasis on individual skills and advocacy. Moreover, reviews internationally have found that such schemes tend to be administratively complex. This paper uses a systematic review of existing research to explore experiences of administrative burden within the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). We found that the scheme is administratively cumbersome overall, and that burdens are exacerbated for particular social groups. We apply concepts of habitus and capital from Bourdieu to theorise why burdens are experienced differently by different groups, and how to address this in practice. In doing so, we can see that addressing exclusion within the NDIS requires us to move away from problematising individuals to including those individuals in different stages of the design and implementation of administrative systems.

Architecture, aesthetics, class and library attendance: An overlooked threshold for visiting public libraries

ABSTRACT Several researchers have applied Bourdieu’s concept of habitus to studies regarding the experience of space and architecture, concluding that respondents often experience surroundings very differently, depending on their social class. Therefore, it can become problematic when public institutions opt for an architectural style that could discourage members of lower/working classes to visit. We believe this to be the case for public libraries, which are housed increasingly frequent in very abstract, iconic buildings. In this article, we present different analyses into this topic performed on data that was gathered in a large scale user survey in public libraries in Flanders and a literature review that explores both the subject of iconic architecture and the relationship between class, architecture and aesthetics.

The social dynamics of group offending

Theoretical explanations of group offending have been hindered by a focus on rational actor models of social relationships. One consequence of this has been a neglect of the dynamics of social relations and their role in group offending and desistance. Drawing illustratively on two studies conducted in the West of Scotland, this article advances an integrated theoretical framework for the comparative study of group offending that moves beyond either individualizing or ‘gang’ frames dominating existing discourse, towards a thick understanding of situated social relations. By integrating Bourdieu’s concept of habitus with Donati’s relational realist framework, this article theoretically and empirically examines the dynamics of group offending relationships, what shapes them and the way they can, in turn, shape and affect offending and desistance trajectories.

Re-examining the gap: A critical realist analysis of eye health inequity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

The prevalence of diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter ‘Aboriginal’) Australians is three times greater than non-Aboriginal Australians, contributing to a greater risk of blindness from treatable and preventable ocular conditions, most prominently cataract and diabetic retinopathy. In rural and remote Aboriginal communities, blindness prevalence is higher, and ocular treatment coverage and uptake are lower. In collaboration with Aboriginal Community Based Researchers (CBRs), this study explored complex contingent factors that shape access to eye health services among rural and remote Aboriginal Australians living with diabetes. Interviews (n = 126) and focus groups (n = 12) were conducted with patients, primary care clinicians, and CBRs, in four rural communities in the Northern Territory and New South Wales. Factors internal and external to health systems were examined, drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, and doxa to understand agency and decision-making among patients and clinicians. The study used the ontology of critical realism, categorising contingent factors as underlying structures (generative mechanisms), and applying a decolonising approach that centred causal relationships and tensions between dominant (Western biomedical neoliberalism) and non-dominant (Aboriginal) value systems. Three forms of marginalisation; linguistic, economic, and cultural, were identified as the generative mechanisms that inhibit equitable eye health outcomes. Marginality is linked to structural factors that position Aboriginal culture as a barrier, and is reinforced through biomedical health systems, and the agents who operate in and influence them. In order to address eye health inequity, a shift in how Aboriginal cultural sovereignty is understood within health systems is needed, to position it as a strength that can facilitate eye care accessibility, and to support enhanced cultural responsivity among clinicians and service providers.

Habitus of Confidence and Identity

The problem of identity has become relevant at present. Being formed in a social environment, identity gives one a sense of the significance of its existence, becomes a means of unification, and provides the solidarization at the macro and micro levels of society. As a
 multifaceted phenomenon, identity is studied in various fields of science. In sociology, the attention of identity is given to various concepts, among which the structural constructivism
 by P. Bourdieu can be distinguished. Identity is based on the classification of entities each other’s interaction, on the identification of identical practices. At the base of the identical practices are similar principles of their creation. The concept of habitus provides an analytical model for studying and identifying the principles on the basis of which the interaction practices are created. In our case, as a habit, we consider the trust and the structures in which it is formed. Family structures and friendly networks act as such. To assess the formation of the habitus of trust in family structures, we believe it is possible on the basis of studying the opinion of respondents regarding the degree of interpersonal trust. The data indicate a high prevalence of this principle. A number of practices confirm this. Among them, the friendship and trust of friends, and seeking help in difficult situations.

Habitus Masyarakat Lokal Desa Temajuk dalam Mengadaptasi Perkembangan Pariwisata

The development of tourism has many impacts on society including the habitus of local communities. In simple terms, it can be understood that the habitus is a system of habits that has been internalized in people's lives. This study aims to see the community's habitus in the midst of tourism development in Temajuk Village, Paloh District, Sambas Regency. This research is a qualitative study using primary interview data collection methods. Through the habitus concept of Pierre Bourdieu, there is a community of Temajuk village that intersects with the development of tourism which can be seen from the aspects of knowledge, understanding, perceptions, values, and actions that are internalized in people's daily lives.

Autoethnography on the Multigenerational Transmission Process and Reflection of a Dysfunctional Family

이 연구는 연구자의 3대의 이야기를 자서전적인 방식을 통해 기술하면서 다세대 전수과정에서 일어나는 현상은 무엇이고 그것이 가족에게 어떤 의미를 갖는지에 대해 이해하는 것을 목적으로 진행하였다. 또한 그 과정 속에서 연구자 내면의식의 변화를 성찰하고 다세대 전수과정 안의 사회문화적 의미를 역할과 아비투스, 실존치료의 개념을 바탕으로 확장하는 것을 통해 상담학적 의의를 제공하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 연구자는 연구자 가족의 역기능과 다세대 전수과정을 자문화기술지라는 방법으로 들여다보았으며 연구의 과정과 경험을 바탕으로 한 연구의 논의는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 다세대 전수과정에서 더 나은 사회경제적 지위와 학력(學力) 추구를 이해하는 것은 개인의 미분화가 역기능 그리고 구조화된 사고로서 아비투스가 어떻게 관계되고 있는지를 이해하는 데 도움을 준다. 둘째, 구조화된 사고로서 아비투스가 포함된 지위 추구와 그에 대한 좌절의 의미를 이해하는 것은 그 과정 안에서 개인이 어떻게 소외되어 가는지를 이해할 수 있다. 셋째, 이러한 소외와 정서적 역동으로서 고통과 불안, 그 과정 전체를 아우르는 다세대 전수과정 그리고 구조화된 사회 관습인 아비투스와의 관계를 이해하는 것은 저항에 대한 새로운 시각을 제공할 수 있으리라 본다.This study was conducted to describe the three generations of the researchers stories in an autobiographical method and to understand what happened in the multigenerational transmission process and what it means to the family. It was also intended to find counseling significance by reflecting on changes in the inner consciousness of researchers in the process and expanding the socio-cultural meaning of the multigenerational transmission process based on the role and the concept of habitus and existential psychotherapy. To this end, the researcher looked at the adverse functions of the researcher s family and the multigenerational transmission process through autoethnogrphy, and the following discussion of the research was made based on the process and experience of the research. First, understanding the pursuit of better socioeconomic status and educational background in the multigenerational transmission process helps us understand how individual differentiation is related to habitus as an adverse function and structured thinking. Second, understanding the meaning of the pursuit of status that includes habitus and frustration in the process as a structured accident can help understand how individuals are isolated within the process. Third, understanding pain and anxiety in this isolation and emotional dynamism, the multigenerational transmission process throughout the process, and the relationship with habitus, a structured social practice, can provide a new perspective on resistance.

Tecnologia, geração e status ocupacional: um estudo sobre a apropriação das tecnologias da informação e comunicação na Universidade Federal de Viçosa

The article discusses the so-called “digital divide”, related to inequality in ownership, use and benefits extracted from technological resources due to the social stratification that imposes economic, political, social and cultural cleavages. Based on studies of the sociology of technique and Bourdieusian concepts of socialization, technological capital and informational habitus, the objective is to analyze the ownership and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) from the perspective of generation and occupation. Conducting a cross-sectional study, with the application of questionnaires to a sample of 324 students, teachers and technical-administrative servants (active and retired) at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) revealed that generation and occupational status have an effect on tenure, forms/frequencies of use and in the self-perception of technological capabilities, also being associated with factors such as gender, education and income. The results showed that a large number of students, active and retired teachers and active technical-administrative servants carry out multiple online activities, declare long use of ICTs and a more favorable perception of digital skills. Meanwhile, retired technical-administrative servants registered the lowest percentages in online practices, the lowest frequencies of use and a less favorable perception of their skills. Other statistically significant differences were also observed.

‘SOCIAL MEDIA ARE NOT NECESSARY FOR OUR WORK’. SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE PRACTICES BY PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS. A GREEK CASE STUDY

Social media implementation in teaching still faces restrictions due to institutional, pedagogical and social factors that affect teachers and academics’ attitude. This research explores teachers’ social media usage practices that contribute to teaching preparation taking place “out of the classroom”, since social media are not officially implemented in Greek education system. Teachers (n=121) of primary schools in Mytilene, Greece, were selected as case study. Research findings show that the majority of teachers, although using social media, do not generally utilize them for educational purposes and when this happens it refers mostly to search for educational content than post their own. Considering that younger teachers, teachers holding M.Sc. and Ph.D. and those familiar with ICT are shown to get more involved with the practices investigated, the research highlights the concept of habitus as a possible mediator that directs teachers to differentiate their actions between social media usage for personal and professional purposes.

Like a fish in water: Habitus adaptation mechanisms of informal tourism entrepreneurs in Thailand

This article investigates possible pathways of habitus change by informal tourism entrepreneurs in Thailand. Bourdieu's concept of habitus is depicted as a person's understanding of the world. Do people adapt their worldview in response to only external stimuli? Through ethnographic fieldwork including participant observations and active semi-structured interviews with 53 participants, this paper identifies a classification of four modes of habitus adaptation: (1) Understanding and appreciating the field and its conditions, (2) Challenging core beliefs systems, (3) Applying a practical sense to ‘objective possibilities’, and, (4) Challenging non-reflective dispositions. We argue that charting the modes of habitus adaptation could help policymakers understand the change processes of informal entrepreneurs in the tourism sector and their willingness to change.

Habitus in the context of transnationalization: From ‘transnational habitus’ to a configuration of dispositions and fields

Ongoing transnationalization processes have deeply affected contemporary societies. One important aspect of this transformation is that people’s skills and dispositions change, thus the ways they think about, perceive and evaluate the world are altered. In order to capture these changes conceptually, the notion of transnational habitus has emerged, especially within migration and inequality studies. Reviewing this research literature, however, we argue that this notion only partly captures the different ways in which transnationalization impacts individuals. We therefore refer to the criticism of Bourdieu’s habitus concept by Lahire and conceive of habitus as a configuration of dispositions, which may be more or less transnationalized. Combining this conceptual discussion with a biographical case study from a research project on highly-skilled migrants, allows us to theorize how specific dispositions are activated or toned down over time in relation to specific field settings. As a result, we can highlight how different kinds of dispositions may be dissimilarly affected by transnationalization processes and how related habitual transformations may be seen as a gradual development. Rather than generally referring to the more static notion of transnational habitus, conceiving of habitus as a configuration of dispositions and contexts thus facilitates a more detailed and processual understanding of the interplay between dispositions and specific field settings in relation to transnationalization.

Popular Banjar Song: Study on Music Form and Media Culture

Technological developments in society and their social practices contribute to the popularity of folk songs. In this regard, this study aims: (1) to analyze the form of popular Banjar song music, and (2) to analyze the discourse and culture-media context that underpins the popularity of the Banjar song. This research was conducted using qualitative methods with data collection strategies including observation, document studies, questionnaires, and interviews. In the aspect of content, analysis of the form of music is carried out in stages: (1) notating the popular Banjar song document; (2) analyzing the form/structure of the music; (3) presenting the elements of the music form, and (3) making conclusions. Meanwhile, in studying the culture-media discourse on popular Banjar songs, it is carried out using the Pierre Bourdieu’s social practice approach which focuses on the concepts of habitus, capital, and the cultural field. Based on the analysis that has been carried out, it is known that popular Banjar songs have basic forms with three variations, namely the form of one part (A), two parts (AB), and three parts (ABC). However, it shows that most of the songs that exist are in the form of two parts, with a tendency to use major tonality. This finding confirms that the popular Banjar song is a product of mass culture, namely artworks produced from the popular culture ecosystem. In this study, it is also found that social and symbolic capital in the popularity of the Banjar song becomes a social practice that takes place in the cultural field of the people of South Kalimantan. The cultural field is a social space for cultural agents to actualize the popularity of the Banjar song.

Habitus Adaptation and First-Generation University Students’ Adjustment to Higher Education: A Life Course Perspective

In recent years, research has brought attention to the heterogeneity of resources that first-generation students bring with them to higher education and the factors that assist in these students’ social and academic adjustment to university life. However, few studies have focused on how these students’ early socialization and experiences over the life course influence their adjustment experiences to university. Drawing on Bourdieu’s habitus concept to explore the life histories of first-generation students at a midranked Swedish university, we identify three types of adjustment profiles—Adjusters, Strangers, and Outsiders—and highlight five key factors over the life course that explain why they differ: family resources, early social environment, educational experiences and opportunities, peers, and partners. Our findings suggest that class-related adjustment challenges in college can be traced to different levels of cultural capital acquired during first-generation students’ early socialization but also to capital acquired through sustained contact with cultural capital–abundant social environments throughout their life course, resulting in subtle but consequential habitus adaptations. This study extends previous research in the field by exploring a broader set of social contexts that can spur first-generation students’ cultural capital acquisition before college and facilitate their adjustment to higher education.

‘There’s not much demand for it’: evaluating the concept of demand in Welsh-medium and bilingual provision in further education

ABSTRACT This article explores the role of the concept of ‘demand’ in Welsh-medium education policy in Further Education and its effectiveness in increasing the number of learners studying through the medium of Welsh and bilingually. The research is based on a sample of four different areas across Wales, drawing on semi-structured interviews with staff in schools and Further Education colleges, and on focus groups with pupils in the final year of their statutory education, who are intending to pursue vocational subjects. The study identifies the principles underlying planning provision according to demand, and analyses the limitations of doing so. Using Bourdieu’s concepts of linguistic habitus and the linguistic market, the article examines how planning according to demand fails to take into consideration the power context of Welsh and English, and the social expectations of the networks in which learners make linguistic choices. It argues that in order to increase the number of learners following Welsh-medium and bilingual provision in the FE sector in Wales, there is a need to reject the neoliberal discourse of choice and demand.

On the undisclosed transfer of abusive Catholic priests: A field theoretical analysis of the sexual repression within the Catholic Church and the use of legitimate language

Catholic priests who sexually abused minors were transferred to other parishes without disclosing the actual reason for their transfer. Based on reports from Ireland, Germany, and the USA, and relying on Bourdieu’s concepts of field and habitus, this article demonstrates that first, the practices of denying and withholding information even to fellow priests are consequences of the repression of sexuality within the Catholic Church. The Church has not provided a legitimate language for priests to be able to engage openly about sexuality. Sexual repression as a field structure is incorporated into the priests’ habitus, resulting in self-censorship when it comes to articulating the issue of sexual abuse. Secondly, the article accounts for the change within the Catholic field and the priest’s habitus, which has resulted in the facility to verbally express sexual matters in order that the undisclosed practice of transferring abusive priests finally stopped.

Habitus and Cultural Capital The Possible Impact on the ‘Final Year Project Module for the Social Sciences’

The aim of this research was, ‘To explore if Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘Habitus’ and ‘Cultural Capital’ differently impact Huddersfield University students participating in the ‘Final Year Project Module for the Social Sciences (FYP)’. The rationale behind this study was due to observations made before and after FYP lectures, in which there were clearly different feelings in terms of confidence approaching the module. Therefore, an understanding of students’ experiences of various aspects of it were warranted. The theoretical framework that was utilised in order to understand the participants’ experiences is that of Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and cultural capital. A qualitative methodology was used, which incorporated an opportunistic sampling method. Six semi-structured interviews with three males and females (differing in self-declared social class and ethnicity) were conducted, and thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. It was found that Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and cultural capital did differently impact students on the module. However, the impact of habitus and cultural capital were primarily determined by social class albeit mitigated by either ethnic capital, student-supervisor relationships or new skills the module introduced. This was reflective of the critical realist perspective of structure and agency.