The HABITUS is called as socially acquired dispositions. They say that Pierre Bourdieu (1930 – 2002) was a French sociologist whose concept of habitus was influential in recent postmodernist humanities and social sciences.
In sociology, it is said that habitus is the way that people perceive and respond to the social world they inhabit, by way of their personal habits, skills, and disposition of character.
In Bourdieu’s best-known work, La Distinction (1979; Distinction), Bourdieu was said to have argued that those with high social and cultural capital (or status) are the arbiters of taste and thatone’s own particular taste comes from the milieu and social class in which one lives—that is, one’s field. An individual’s almost innate knowledge of how to live in and navigate that field is said to be what he termed habitus.
It is said that people with a common cultural background (social class, religion, and nationality, ethnic group, education, and profession) share a habitus as the way that group culture and personal history shape the mind of a person; consequently, the habitus of a person influences and shapes the social actions of the person.
Let’s talk about Memphis now. Unfortunately, a lot of local residents or inhabitants around the city of Memphis in Shelby County, Tennessee, seem to have bad or low HABITUS. Arguably, they really are such people.
There seemed to exist various kinds, levels, or dimensions of reasons or mechanisms in terms of such aspects including, but not limited to historical, cultural, racial, ethical, psychological, and indivisual factors.
Therefore, it is not easy to find social solutions to deal with such phenomena in Memphis. And it is not foreseeable that they can fix various social problems in the near future or in the medium term.
There are criminals in the streets who have issues of gun violence, carjacking, robbery, theft, and so on. There are landlords who have issues of theft towards their tenants especially at the end of their contracts. There are corporate, companies, or businesses which have issues of performing unfair and deceptive practices towards their customers.
What was worse, there were allegations or suspicions that even local law enforcements were involved in illegal activities. And there are lawyers at the law firms who have issues of legal malpractices, or of stealing legal rights.
What was worst, there are allegations or suspicions that there have been even such lawyers who were sitting on judicial benches as judges, who have issues of being involved in the white-collar crimes, or of stealing or robbing the legal rights and claims of the innocent indivisuals.
In a nutshell, Memphis is a funny place.
The Editorial of the Memphis Times
www.memphistimes.org
Published: September 10, 2024, Tuesday, at 2:39PM
References:
“Pierre Bourdieu”, Britannica(www.britannica.com), accessed September 10, 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Bourdieu#ref1272528.
“Habitus”, Wikipedia(https://en.wikipedia.org), accessed September 10, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitus_(sociology)
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