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Habitus theory

The habitus is a theory developed for Pierre Bourdieu he was a french sociologist, considered one of the most important thinkers of the contemporary sociology. He was interested on the study of the development of the life of the differents people in the social class, it is from this that he develops his theory of habitus and social fields. Starting from this is that he found different similar position in certain social classes.

For this he used it to address the sociological problem of agency and structure: the habitus is shaped by structural position and generates action, thus when people act and demonstrate agency they simultaneously reflect and reproduce social structure.

Is possible see that the different authors talk about the similar theories, but is with Bourdieu that the habitus takes importance because he developed a complete study about the power of the structure and the agency, is important read to the different authors for understand this theory because is a complex theory that put into discussion different postulates relation with social science. I think that the Habitus theory is a very important because with this is possible understand the different disposition that the people had and not only about your actions but also about the types of different capitals that the people acquire and develop throughout in their lives.

Personal interest

Actually I development a Investigation relation with the Habitus, this Investigation is relation with the "Integration strategies of former residents of SENAME in different social fields", Here we use much of the theory elaborated by Pierre Bourdieu. The SENAME is a Chilean state agency responsible fot the protection of the righ of boys, girls and young people before judicil system. He also is responsible of the regulation and supervising the adoption of minors, actually this agency is in crisis because is accused of systematic violation of the rights of the children and young people.

Recommended Texts

For this is necessary read for example to: Levi Strauss, Sartre, Archer and the most important Pierre Bourdieu. Some texts are:

Lévi-Strauss, C. (1971) “Introducción a la obra de Marcel Mauss”.

Bourdieu, P. (1991) El sentido práctico, Taurus, Madrid.

Sartre, J-P (2009) El existencialismo es un humanismo, Edhasa, Buenos Aires

Lahire, B. (2004) El hombre plural, Ediciones Bellaterra, Barcelona.

Archer, M. (2009) Teoría social realista: el enfoque morfogenético, Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago.

Bibliography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitus_(sociology)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu

http://routledgesoc.com/category/profile-tags/habitus