...is in the social world but also the ways in which the social world is in the body (Bourdieu 1981): The habitus as the feel for the game is the social game embodied and turned into second nature. (Bourdieu, 1990b: 63) Thus, one of the crucial features of habitus is that it is embodied;...

...understands all the possible moves, and yet the rules of the game are so inscribed as to be invisible. "The habitus as the feel for the game is the social game embodied and turned into a second nature." What Bourdieu is proposing here is a model which counters structuralism by allowing the subject to...

...is in the social world but also the ways in which the social world is in the body (Bourdieu 1981): The habitus as the feel for the game is the social game embodied and turned into second nature. (Bourdieu, 1990b: 63) Thus, one of the crucial features of habitus is that it is embodied;...

...learned and unlearned in producing a feel for the game, and the social game of life, Bourdieu observed: The habitus as the feel for the game is the social...simultaneously freer and more constrained than the action of a good player. He [sic] quite naturally materialises at just the place the ball is about to fall, as...

...contexts and can be altered by the social actor as well as the environment surrounding a given activity. The habitus as the feel for the game is the social...simultaneously freer and more constrained than the action of a good player. He quite naturally materialises at just the place the ball is about to fall, as if the...

...with assets, both economic and cultural. An example from the work of Bourdieu may be appropriate here: The habitus as the feel for the game is the social...simultaneously freer and more constrained than the action of a good player. He quite naturally materialises at just the place the ball is about to fall, as if the...

...socialisation' (Lemke, 2003, p. 2). Bourdieu' himself associates such dispositions with the notion of games -, "the feel for the game is the social game embodied and turned into a second nature" (Bourdieu 1990 p 63). This can provide us with a way of making sense of some of the relations between...

...ground between structures and actions. Bourdieu (1990a) likens habitus to the feel for the game but the game is the social game embodied and turned into a second nature of doing things without thinking. Being a competent social actor involves having a mastery over social...

...exposure to particular social conditions - hence we internalize external constraint within our bodies: 'the habitus as the feel for the game is the social game embodied and turned into a second nature' (Bourdieu, 1990: 63). The dispositions associated with a particular habitus are shared by people subjected...