Habitus and social class

A case study on socialisation into sports and exercise

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12572000
AutoresMirjam Stuij (0000-0003-1874-9231, Mulier Institute, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen20
Número6
Páginas780-798
Fecha de publicación2013-08-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSport Education and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1357-3322 • E-ISSN: 1470-1243
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13573322.2013.827568
OpenAlexW1982418758
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas53
Referencias citadas35

According to Bourdieu, habitus is an important, and class-specific, foundation for behaviour. However, he hardly explained how the habitus is acquired. Based on Bernstein's elaboration on the various contexts in which group-specific behavioural principles are acquired, this article demonstrates how young children of two divergent social classes obtain their habitus underlying their sports and exercise behaviour. Although children in both groups acquire a habitus in which sports and exercise play a role, there are striking differences which arise largely out of differences in the impact of socialising agents. Within the higher social class, there is a clearly defined group, namely the nuclear family, which explicitly controls and regulates the children's exercise behaviour. These children learn specific skills at specific places. In the lower social class, the habitus is influenced by the extended family, the physical education teacher and peers, resulting in a broad range of less strictly ordered activities, undertaken at different places. These findings offer a valuable contribution to insight into class-specific socialisation processes, resulting in the acquisition of a specific habitus

Class (philosophy · Cultural capital · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Habitus · Political science · Social class · Social science · Sociology · Physical Education and Pedagogy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology · Sports, Gender, and Society