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Habitus represents a dialectical relationship between the individual and social spheres. It is
“the way society becomes deposited in persons in the form of lasting dispositions,
or trained
capacities and structured propensities to think, feel, and act in determinate ways, which then
guide them in their creative responses” (Waquant, 2005, pp. 317-318).
Habitus is a social creation
and can vary across time, place, and distributions of power or
social class. As an example, members of the same social class or relative lifestyle may have
similar dispositions toward,
or a class habitus of, their food,
political, and music preferences.
Habitus is durable but not permanent. It does possess a type of recursive inertia, entrenching it
within the social practices that created and reinforce it. Yet it can
be disrupted or altered by
external forces (Bourdieu, 1979/1984). This research considers the corporate habitus exhibited
by the executives as they made decisions about the outsourcing strategy and its
implementation.
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