TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Habitus in extremis'
T2 - From embodied culture to bio-cultural development
AU - Downey, Greg
PY - 2014/6
Y1 - 2014/6
N2 - Loïc Wacquant argues for a radicalization of the habitus concept provided by Pierre Bourdieu, suggesting that habitus is a site and mode for conducting research, not simply an explanatory or theoretical mechanism. Taking seriously this call to examine skills and communities of practice through apprenticeship, however, requires that the theoretical account of habitus be subject to empirical testing. Moreover, enquiry into communities of practice, especially the subtle psychological, behavioural and even neurological consequences of skill acquisition, means that claims about the habitus can be scrutinized by fields such as psychology, neurology and even human biology. Habitus as a truly open path of inquiry will demand, not wholly novel concepts, but a recognition of when claims enquiry, including the human sciences.
AB - Loïc Wacquant argues for a radicalization of the habitus concept provided by Pierre Bourdieu, suggesting that habitus is a site and mode for conducting research, not simply an explanatory or theoretical mechanism. Taking seriously this call to examine skills and communities of practice through apprenticeship, however, requires that the theoretical account of habitus be subject to empirical testing. Moreover, enquiry into communities of practice, especially the subtle psychological, behavioural and even neurological consequences of skill acquisition, means that claims about the habitus can be scrutinized by fields such as psychology, neurology and even human biology. Habitus as a truly open path of inquiry will demand, not wholly novel concepts, but a recognition of when claims enquiry, including the human sciences.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904970765&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1357034X14524603
DO - 10.1177/1357034X14524603
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904970765
SN - 1357-034X
VL - 20
SP - 113
EP - 117
JO - Body and Society
JF - Body and Society
IS - 2
ER -