1. A. Pierre Bourdieu: Existentialism and Structuralism
... ourselves. He writes that "habitus is the source of these series of movies which are objectively organized as strategies without being the product of a genuine strategic intention" Individual hence behave not in terms of rules but in terms of strategies. These strategies are a part of practice. Habitus then conditions us and places limits on possibilities. For Bourdieu, if habitus is constraining ... but is historically generated because they are embedded in individuals. They know it not only in their minds but in their bodies as well, whatever they say or however they act depicts their...
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