Bourdieu define habitus as the most influential and ambiguous concept which refers to the physical embodiment of cultural capital to internal ingrained habits, skills and disposition that often human beings possess as a result of their life experience. This concept of habitus has been used during Aristotle introduced by Marcel, Maurice. Marloau and Pierre. Bourdieu who turned it into a cornerstone for sociology, using it to solve various sociological structures. He thus elaborate his concept using cognitive scheme. This concept has been the most influential in the twentieth century, he developed this theoretical issue to overcome dualism that existed in the society.
Bourdieu’s often used sports metaphor while explaining habitus referring it to as feel the game for instance when a skilled basket baller understands when to swing at a ninety five miles per hour fastball without even thinking about it. each position in the field is determined by different individual habitus such as the societies, education, social class and how they were brought up but their …show more content…
This concept is mainly linked the social structures within a specific field and essential to sociological analysis of society. This concept defines practices and perception of practices. Habits consists of thought, tastes, beliefs, interest and our understanding of the world. Bourdieu concept has the potential to influence our actions and to develop our social at and the internal. The concept has helped in the social charitable giving and lay morality understanding sympathy, moral evaluations and social positions in the society. It has helped in the focus on embodied commonalities and differences across diverse religions contexts that offers available basis upon engaging critically within religion .It can be used to identify power history and various religious responsibilities and culture and