Field & Habitus - Bourdieu’s key terms, deeply interdependent

Field - competitive system of social relations which functions according to its own specific logic or rules.

• Bourdieu: “an area, a playing field, a field of objective relations among individuals or institutions competing for the same stakes,

Habitus - Bourdieu: “a system of dispositions attuned to the game of the field.”

• each field generates its own specific habitus
• Bourdieu: “for a field to work, there must be stakes, and people ready to play the game, equipped with the habitus which enables them to know and recognize the immanent laws of the game, the stakes and so on”
• The totality of general dispositions acquired through practical experience in the field
• those norms and values that are inculcated through the very forms of classroom interaction, rather than through any explicit teaching project.