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Habitus is a mediating notion that helps us avoid the duality so often imposed between the individual and the social by capturing 'the internalization of externality and the externalization of internality.

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Habitus is a structuring structure, a principle of the generation and structuring of practices.

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Habitus is a set of predispositions derived largely through a process of socialization which is internalized in a way which ensures that we 'forget' the social learning.

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Habitus is a kind of competency which describes how one can, say, speak a language unthinkingly according to shared rules in inventive yet predictable ways.

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Habitus is a durably installed generative principle of regulated improvisations.

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Habitus is a set of dispositions that are inscribed in the body, shaping its most fundamental habits and skills, and transmitting the effects of social power into the person.

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A Habitus is a matrix of perceptions, appreciations, and actions functioning at every moment.

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Habitus is a structure of the mind and emotions characterized by a set of acquired schemata, sensibilities, dispositions and taste.

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