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The Habitus Process: A Biopsychosocial Conception
Author(s) -
PICKEL ANDREAS
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal for the theory of social behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.615
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5914
pISSN - 0021-8308
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2005.00285.x
Subject(s) - habitus , biopsychosocial model , process (computing) , sociology , psychology , epistemology , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , social science , philosophy , cultural capital , computer science , operating system
The concept of habitus, popularized in the last two decades of the twentieth century especially by the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias, is frequently employed in the social and biosocial sciences. The concept ofhabitus seems to offer a fruitful way of dealing with somefunda mental problems in social theory today by providing a promising conceptual linkage between cultural, social, psychological and biological dimensions of reality. The task of this paper is to work towards a clearer and more systematic conception of habitus based on a systemic and mechanismic philosophy of science. The paper surveys the various forms in which habitus appears in the social world, presents a systematic account of the structures and effects of habitus, and sketches a dynamic model ofhow,habitus as process in biopsychosocial systems works. The illustrative case to be discussed is that of national habitus and homo nationisas a biopsychosocial system. ,2 The Habitus Process