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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:39:18 +1000
From: Robert van Krieken <robertvk-AT-extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Subject: Mauss, Habitus again


Yes, of course, Mauss, forgot about him!  >:o
I've just looked up the question of the sources of Habitus in Jenkins' book,
and he says the following:

'In Bourdieu's appropriation of the word, it derives in the first instance
>from 1967 and an appendix which he contributed to his own translation into
French of Panofsky's _Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism_. Before that,
however, it appears in a variety of settings, in, among others, the work of
"Hegel, Husserl, Weber, Durkheim and Mauss" [In Other Words, p. 28]'

As Camic argues, the concept of habit seems to have been part of the general
intellectual 'common good' of most philosophers and social scientists up
until about mid-century, when it disappeared from view, which Camic
attributes, in the US at least, to the dynamics of the institutionalization
of sociology as a discipline distinct from psychology, biology and
economics. In other words, the issue may be less where did the concept come
from, than why did people stop using it? And, what are the broader
implications of its utilization by Bourdieu (and Elias) for contemporary
social thought? Camic seems to think it undermines much of the structure of
post-war social theory.


Robert van Krieken

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